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Yehudah, a servant of Yahushua the Anointed and brother of Yaaqov, to those who are called, beloved in Elohim the Father, and guarded for Yahushua the Anointed:
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Mercy, shalom, and love be multiplied to you.
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Beloved, while making every effort to write to you concerning the deliverance we share, I found it necessary to write, urging you to contend earnestly for the trust once entrusted to the set-apart ones.
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For certain ishim slipped in secretly, those long ago marked out for this judgment: irreverent ones, turning the grace of our Elohim into sensual excess and denying our only Master and Sovereign, Yahushua the Anointed.
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Now I desire to remind you, though you once knew all these things, that the Master, having delivered a people out of the land of Mitsrayim, afterward destroyed those who did not trust.
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And the messengers who did not guard their own appointed station, but abandoned their proper dwelling, He has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
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Just as Sedom and Amorah, and the cities around them in the same manner, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and pursued flesh outside its proper order, are set before us as an example, undergoing the judgment of everlasting fire.
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Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile flesh, reject authority, and revile glorious beings.
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But Mikha'el the chief messenger, when disputing with the adversary and contending concerning the body of Mosheh, did not dare bring against him a judgment of reviling, but said: 'May Yahuah rebuke you.'
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But these revile whatever they do not understand; and whatever they know naturally, like creatures without reason, by these very things they corrupt themselves.
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Woe to them, because they walked in the way of Qayin, rushed headlong for gain into the error of Bil'am, and perished in the rebellion of Qorach.
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These are hidden reefs in your meals of love, feasting with you without fear, shepherding themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; late-autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;
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wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept to the age.
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And Chanokh also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied concerning these, saying: 'See - Yahuah came with myriads of His set-apart ones,
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to execute Judgment upon all, and to convict every being concerning all their irreverent works which they committed in irreverence, and concerning all the harsh things irreverent sinners spoke against Him.'
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These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; their mouth speaks swollen words, showing partiality toward faces for the sake of gain.
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But you, beloved, remember the words spoken beforehand by the emissaries of our Master Yahushua the Anointed,
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how they told you: 'In the last time there shall be mockers, walking according to their own irreverent desires.'
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These are the ones making divisions, governed by the natural being, not having Ruach.
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But you, beloved, building yourselves upon your most set-apart trust and praying in Holy Ruach,
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guard yourselves in the love of Elohim, awaiting the mercy of our Master Yahushua the Anointed toward everlasting life.
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And have mercy on those who are wavering;
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save others, snatching them out of fire; and on others have mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by flesh.
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Now to the One who is able to guard you from stumbling and to make you stand before His glory without blemish, with great joy,
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to the only Elohim, our Deliverer, through Yahushua the Anointed our Master, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before every age, and now, and to all the ages. Amein.