Jude 1:3-16 - ESV Bible - Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you...

Judgment on False Teachers

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our ¹common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you ²to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

4 For ³certain people ⁴have crept in unnoticed ⁵who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert ⁶the grace of our God into sensuality and ⁷deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5 Now I want ⁸to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that ⁹Jesus, who saved^a a people out of the land of Egypt, ¹⁰afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

6 And ¹¹the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day--

7 just as ¹²Sodom and Gomorrah and ¹³the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and ¹⁴pursued unnatural desire,^b serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and ¹⁵blaspheme the glorious ones.

9 But when ¹⁶the archangel ¹⁷Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing ¹⁸about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, ¹⁹"The Lord rebuke you."

10 ²⁰But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

11 Woe to them! For they walked in ²¹the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain ²²to Balaam's error and ²³perished in Korah's rebellion.

12 These are hidden reefs^c²⁴ at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, ²⁵shepherds feeding themselves; ²⁶waterless clouds, ²⁷swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, ²⁸uprooted;

13 ²⁹wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of ³⁰their own shame; ³¹wandering stars, ³²for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

14 It was also about these that Enoch, ³³the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, ³⁴"Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,

15 ³⁵to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have ³⁶committed in such an ungodly way, and of all ³⁷the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

16 These are grumblers, malcontents, ³⁸following their own sinful desires; ³⁹they are loud-mouthed boasters, ⁴⁰showing favoritism to gain advantage.

Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA

Judas 1:3 Amados, enquanto eu empregava toda a diligência para escrever-vos acerca da salvação que nos é comum, senti a necessidade de vos escrever, exortando-vos a pelejar pela fé que de uma vez para sempre foi entregue aos santos.

King James Version KJV

Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

New King James Version NKJV

Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Nova Versão Internacional NVIP

Judas 1:3 Amados, embora estivesse muito ansioso para escrever a vocês acerca da salvação que compartilhamos, senti que era necessário escrever insistindo que batalhassem pela fé de uma vez por todas confiada aos santos.

Jude 1:3-16 ESV