Yehuda, a servant of Y'shua the Mashiyach, and brother of Ya'akov, to the called peoples, beloved in Elohim the Father, and kept in Y'shua the Mashiyach:¹

Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

My beloved, while I take all diligence to write to you about our common life, I have need to write to you, as I exhort you to contend for the faith that was once delivered to the holy ones.

For some men have crept in, those who from the beginning were written beforehand to this condemnation, wicked men who turn the grace of our Elohim into impurity, and deny him who alone is Master Elohim and our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach.

But I want to remind you, though you know all these things, that Elohim, when he once delivered the people from Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe.

And the messengers who did not keep their primacy, but left their own dwelling, he has kept in unknown chains under gloom for the judgment of the great day.

As Sedom and Amora and the cities around them, which in the same likeness as these committed whoredom and went after other flesh, are set under the example of everlasting fire while condemned to judgment.

In the same likeness also these who dream defile the flesh, but despise lordship and blaspheme glory.

But Mikael the chief of the messengers, who when contending with the Accuser was speaking about the body of Moshe, did not dare to bring against him a judgment of blasphemy, but said, Master YHWH will rebuke you.

But these blaspheme in the things they do not know; and in the things they understand naturally like mute animals, in those they corrupt themselves.

Woe to them, for they have gone in the way of Qayin, and after the error of Balaam they have rushed for reward, and in the rebellion of Qorach they have perished.

These are they who in their feastings riot while staining themselves, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without rain driven by the wind; trees whose fruit has failed, that are without fruit, that have died twice and been pulled up from their roots.

wild waves of the sea that by their foam show their shame; wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness is kept forever.

And Enoch also prophesied about these, who is the seventh from Adam, when he said: Look, Master YHWH comes with myriads of his holy ones,

to do judgment on all and to convict every soul because of all the deeds they did wickedly and because of all the hard words that wicked sinners spoke.

These are the ones who murmur and complain about everything while they walk according to their own desires, and their mouth speaks swollen things, and they praise faces for the sake of gain.

But you, my beloved, remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach,

that they were saying to you that in the last time there will be mockers who go after their own desires in wickedness.

These are they who separate themselves, sensual persons, who have no Ruach.

But you, my beloved, build yourselves up from the beginning in your holy faith, while praying in the Ruach haKodesh.

And keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, while we wait for the mercy of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach, for our life that is eternal.

And snatch some of them from the fire.

But when they repent, have compassion on them with fear, hating even the tunic that is defiled by the flesh.

And to him who is able to keep us without stumbling and without spot, and to establish us without blemish,

to the only Elohim, our Life-Giver, by means of Y'shua the Mashiyach our Master, before his glory, with joy, namely, to him be glory and dominion and honor and greatness, both now and in all ages. Amen.