the
heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with
heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed. [3:11]All these
things therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy
conduct and piety, [3:12] expecting and hastening the coming of the day
of God, in which the heavens being burnt up will be dissolved and the
elements be melted with heat. [3:13]But we, according to his promise,
look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.

4 [3:14]Wherefore, beloved, looking for these things, be diligent that
you may be found in him without a spot and blemish, in peace, [3:15]and
consider the long-suffering of the Lord our salvation; as also our
beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him wrote to you,
[3:16]as also in all his epistles speaking of these things, in which
are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable
wrest as they also do the other Scriptures to their destruction.
[3:17]Do you therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] before, be on
your guard not to be carried away with the error of the wicked and fall
from your steadfastness, [3:18]but grow in grace and in the knowledge
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and
forever.

THE EPISTLE OF JUDAS

A.D. 67.

FALSE TEACHERS, ETC.

1 [1:1]JUDAS, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the
beloved in God the Father, and the called who are kept by Jesus Christ.
[1:2]Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

2 [1:3]Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the
common salvation, I was under a necessity to write and exhort you to
contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. [1:4]For
some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this
judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and
denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

3 [1:5]But I wish to remind you, though you once knew all, that the
Lord having saved his people from Egypt, afterwards destroyed those
that believed not, [1:6] and the angels who kept not their own
province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in
eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day; [1:7]as Sodom and
Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same
manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an
example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.

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