3 I earnestly contend for the faith that was once and for all entrusted to the saints.
4 I carry no condemnation, written or spoken. I am godly; I neither change the grace of our God into a license for immorality nor deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
5 The Lord delivered His people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And the angels who did not keep within their domain but abandoned their own home, He has kept in utter darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judg- ment on the great Day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cit- ies about them in like manner, giving them- selves over to fornication, and going after unnatural lust, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Therefore, I shall not follow the very same way; I shall not pollute my own body with dirty sex or reject authority or slander celestial beings.
9 I am lifted up in Jesus Christ and I have a lordship over Satan; today I rebuke Satan and cast him out of the people — unlike even the archangel Michael, who when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
10 I am not an empty brain scoffing at things he doesn’t understand. I am a deep thinker; I will not follow instincts and emotions blindly into destruction.
11 I am blessed! I have not taken the way of Cain; I have not rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; I am not destroyed in Korah’s rebellion…
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