Epistle of St. Jude

Jude, (the) servant of Jesus Christ, but (the) brother of James, to them who were loved in God the Father, and they were kept for Jesus Christ, they who are called.

May (the) mercy and (the) peace and the love be multiplied to you.

My beloved, all diligence (it is) which I give (lit. do them) writing to you concerning your salvation together. It was necessary for me to write to you to encourage (you), that ye should strive in the faith which was once delivered to you, namely the saints.

For men slipped themselves in among us, concerning whom it was before written unto this judgement, being ungodly, changing the grace of our Lord into [a] defilement, and denying (the) only Master, our Lord Jesus Christ.

I wish you to know; though ye know all things, that once Jesus saved his people from (the) land of Khēmi; but (the) second time, them who believed not he destroyed.

Angels also (who) kept not their beginning, but they left their place of dwelling, he kept them in under (the) darkness in eternal bonds unto the judgement of the great day.

As Sodoma and Gomorra, and the other cities which were around them, having fornicated as these, and they went after other flesh (plur.), they are set for an example of the eternal fire, about to receive a judgement.

Thus also these others defile their flesh in (the) dreaming of dreams d, but reject [the] dominion; the glories they blaspheme.

But Michaēl the archangel, speaking (lit. saying) against the devil--he was speaking concerning (the) body of Moses--dared not to bring a blasphemous judgement upon him, but he said: 'The Lord shall rebuke thee.'

But these blaspheme [in] the things indeed which they know not: but the things which they know naturally, as beasts without speech, in these they are corrupted.

Woe to them because they walked on (the) road of Kain, and they rushed along (the) error of (the) reward of Balaam, and they perished in the contradiction of Kore.

These are they who are spots in your love-feasts, delighting with you, being shepherds to themselves in fearlessness; they are clouds without water, and with (the) wind taking them and bringing them; they are fruitless trees of (the) autumn, having died twice, having been plucked up with their root;

they are wild waves of the sea, foaming out a shame; they are stars astray, for whom is kept (the) darkness of (the) eternal blackness.

But also against these prophesied the seventh from Adam, Enoch, saying: Lo, the Lord came in myriads of holy angels of his,

executing a judgement against all; and to reprove all the ungodly concerning all of their works of ungodliness in which they were ungodly, and concerning all the hard things which they spake against him, being ungodly sinners.'

These are the quarrelsome murmurers, walking according to their lusts, and their mouths speak in excess, admiring (men's) persons because of gain.

But ye, my beloved, remember the words which were spoken from (the) first by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

that they were saying to you, that at (the) end of the times deceivers shall come, walking according to the lusts of their ungodlinesses.

These are they who separate, psychic, in whom there is not spirit.

But ye, my beloved, build yourselves in your holy faith, praying in the holy spirit.

Let us keep ourselves in [a] love of God, looking out forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto an eternal life.

Some indeed reproving, distinction being made about them;

but some saving, snatching them from a fire; But some having mercy upon in [a] fear, hating even the garment which is with spot from the flesh.

But he for whom it is possible to keep you without stumbling, and to set you up before his' glory, being without spot in [a] gladness-

God alone our saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, the glory is his, and the greatness, and the strength, and the authority, before all the ages, and now and unto age of the ages, Amēn.