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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jonah&#8217;s Anger at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Compassion</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JON.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JON.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this what I said, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JON.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JON.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;Is it right for you to be angry?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JON.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JON.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JON.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God provided a leafy plant</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of this plant is uncertain; also in verses 7, 9 and 10.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JON.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JON.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah&#8217;s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, &#8220;It would be better for me to die than to live.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JON.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But God said to Jonah, &#8220;Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.4.9"><span class="content">&#8220;It is,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m so angry I wish I were dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JON.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JON.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JON.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left&#8212;and also many animals?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah&#8212;the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear, you peoples, all of you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">listen, earth and all who live in it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">that the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> may bear witness against you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">the Lord from his holy temple.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against Samaria and Jerusalem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Look! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming from his dwelling place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.1.3"><span class="content">he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The mountains melt beneath him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">and the valleys split apart,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">like wax before the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">like water rushing down a slope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All this is because of Jacob&#8217;s transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">because of the sins of the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">What is Jacob&#8217;s transgression?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">Is it not Samaria?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">What is Judah&#8217;s high place?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">Is it not Jerusalem?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">a place for planting vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">I will pour her stones into the valley</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">and lay bare her foundations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All her idols will be broken to pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">I will destroy all her images.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Weeping and Mourning</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Because of this I will weep and wail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">I will go about barefoot and naked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">I will howl like a jackal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">and moan like an owl.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For Samaria&#8217;s plague is incurable;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">it has spread to Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">It has reached the very gate of my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">even to Jerusalem itself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Tell it not in Gath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Gath </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">tell</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">weep not at all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">In Beth Ophrah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Beth Ophrah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of dust.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">roll in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Pass by naked and in shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">you who live in Shaphir.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="fq">Shaphir </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">pleasant.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">Those who live in Zaanan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="fq">Zaanan </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">come out</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">will not come out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">Beth Ezel is in mourning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">it no longer protects you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who live in Maroth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="fq">Maroth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">bitter.</span></span></span><span class="content"> writhe in pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">waiting for relief,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">because disaster has come from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">even to the gate of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You who live in Lachish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">harness fast horses to the chariot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">You are where the sin of Daughter Zion began,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore you will give parting gifts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">to Moresheth Gath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">The town of Akzib</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:14 </span><span class="fq">Akzib </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">deception.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will prove deceptive</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">to the kings of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will bring a conqueror against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">who live in Mareshah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="fq">Mareshah </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">conqueror</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">The nobles of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">will flee to Adullam.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Shave your head in mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="content">for the children in whom you delight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="content">make yourself as bald as the vulture,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.1.16"><span class="content">for they will go from you into exile.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The elder,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"><span class="content">To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="3JN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="3JN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="3JN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="3JN.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="3JN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span><span class="content"> even though they are strangers to you. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="3JN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="3JN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="3JN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="3JN.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="3JN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="3JN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="3JN.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="3JN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="3JN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone&#8212;and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="3JN.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="3JN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="3JN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="3JN.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="3JN.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="content">To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">by</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jesus Christ:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JUD.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God&#8217;s holy people. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">individuals who were marked out for condemnation</span></span></span><span class="content"> long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JUD.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Jesus</span></span></span><span class="content"> at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JUD.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling&#8212;these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JUD.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JUD.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, &#8220;The Lord rebuke you!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Jude is alluding to the Jewish Testament of Moses (approximately the first century <span class="sc">a.d.</span>).</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct&#8212;as irrational animals do&#8212;will destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam&#8217;s error; they have been destroyed in Korah&#8217;s rebellion.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JUD.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm&#8212;shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted&#8212;twice dead. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JUD.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: &#8220;See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JUD.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">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.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="ft">From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century <span class="sc">b.c.</span>)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Call to Persevere</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JUD.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JUD.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said to you, &#8220;In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JUD.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">keep yourselves in God&#8217;s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JUD.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Be merciful to those who doubt; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear&#8212;hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:23 </span><span class="ft">The Greek manuscripts of these verses vary at several points.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doxology</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JUD.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JUD.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.</span></span></div>
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