KEEP YOURSELVES IN GOD’S LOVE

 

14 Enoch, the Seventh from Adam,

Prophesied about them (the Ungodly):

“See, the Lord is Coming

With Thousands upon Thousands

Of His Holy Ones

15 To Judge Everyone,

And to Convict all of them

Of All the Ungodly Acts they have Committed

In their Ungodliness,

And of All the Defiant Words

Ungodly Sinners have Spoken Against Him.”

16 These people are Grumblers and Faultfinders;

They Follow their own Evil Desires;

They Boast about Themselves

And Flatter others for their Own Advantage.

17 But, dear Friends,

Remember what the Apostles

Of Our Lord Jesus Christ Foretold.

18 They said to You,

“IN THE LAST TIMES

There will be Scoffers

Who will Follow their Own Ungodly Desires.”

19 These are the People who Divide You,

Who Follow Mere Natural Instincts

And Do Not have the Spirit.

20 But you, dear Friends,

BY BUILDING YOURSELVES UP

IN YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH

AND PRAYING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,

21 KEEP YOURSELVES IN GOD’S LOVE

As You Wait for the Mercy

Of Our Lord Jesus Christ

TO BRING YOU TO ETERNAL LIFE.

(Jude 14-21, NIV)