not God. He that abideth in the teaching, he hath both 10 the Son and the Father. If any one cometh to you, and bringeth not this teaching, receive him not into your house, 11 and do not bid him good speed. For he that biddeth him good speed taketh part in his evil deeds.

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Having many things to write to you, I would not write with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be full.

13 The children of thy elect sister salute thee.

THE THIRD OF JOHN.

THE elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. Beloved, in all things I pray that thou mayst prosper 8 and be in health, as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bore witness to thy truth, 4 as thou walkest in truth. I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children walk in the truth.

Beloved, thou doest a faithful thing whatever thou doest 6 to the brethren, and that to strangers, who bore witness of thy love before the church; whom if thou send forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, thou 7 wilt do well. For in behalf of the Name they went forth, 8 taking nothing of the gentiles. We therefore ought to sustain such persons, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.

9 I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, receiveth 10 us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words; and not content therewith, he himself doth not receive the brethren, and those that would he 11 forbiddeth, and casteth them out of the church. Beloved, do not imitate that which is evil, but that which is good.

Ver. 5.

— a faithful thing; otherwise, as a believer. — A.

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He that doeth good is of God; he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

To Demetrius testimony hath been borne by all, and by the truth itself; yea, we also bear witness, and ye know that our witness is true.

I had many things to write to thee, but I do not wish 14 to write to thee with ink and pen; but I hope to see thee immediately, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by

name.

THE EPISTLE OF JUDE.

JUDE, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called, loved in God the Father and kept by Jesus 2 Christ: Mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

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Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you, I found it necessary to write to you concerning the common salvation, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the 4 faith which was once delivered to the saints. For there have stealthily crept in certain men who were of old appointed beforehand for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Sovereign, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 But I wish to remind you as once knowing it all, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of 6 Egypt, afterward destroyed those who believed not; and the angels which kept not their principality, but left their own dwelling-place, he hath kept in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day; 7 even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, in like manner with them giving themselves over to fornication, and going away after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of everlasting fire.

8 Yet in like manner these dreamers defile the flesh, 9 despise dominion, and rail at dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the Devil he disputed

about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a 10 railing accusation, but said: The Lord rebuke thee. But these rail at the things which they know not; but what things they understand naturally, as brute beasts, in these 11 they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and rushed on in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

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These are the rocks in your feasts of love, feasting together without fear, feeding only themselves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; trees in late autumn, 13 without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for

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Yea, and against these Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord cometh in the midst 15 of his holy myriads, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly among them of all the deeds of their ungodliness which they committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him.”* 16 These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.

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But do ye, beloved, remember the words which were before spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 that they told you that at the last time there would be scoffers, walking according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are they that separate themselves, sensual, not having the Spirit.

Ver. 12. - rocks; i.e. against which you are in danger of being ship wrecked. – in late autumn; ie. stripped of leaves and fruit.

*This citation was made from the book of Enoch, a forged writing composed, probably, between one and two centuries before Christ.