III. Iohn. trueth and loue. true, euen in his Sonne Iesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternall life. 21 Little children, keepe your selues from Idoles. Amen. Epistle of Iohn. the Commandement, that as yee haue heard from the beginning, yee should walke in it. 7 For many deceiuers are entred into the world, who confesse not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiuer, and an Antichrist. 8 Looke to your selues, that wee lose not those things which wee haue wrought, but that we receiue a full reward. || Or, 9 Whosoeuer transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine gained. of Christ, hath not God: hee that abideth in the doctrine of copies Christ, he hath both the Father and the Sonne. Some reade, 10 If there come any vnto you, and bring not this doctrine, which yee haue gaireceiue him not into your house, neither bid him, God speed. ned, but II For hee that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his that ye euill deeds. 12 Hauing many things to write vnto you, I would not write with paper and inke, but I trust to come vnto you, and speake face to face, that our ioy may be full. 13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen. Epistle of Iohn. mayest prosper and be in health, euen as thy soule prospereth. 3 For I reioyced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, euen as thou walkest in the trueth. 4 I haue no greater ioy, then to heare that my children. walke in truth. 5 Beloued, thou doest faithfully whatsoeuer thou doest to the Brethren, and to strangers: 6 Which haue borne witnesse of thy charitie before the Church: whome if thou receiue, &c. + Gr. mouth to mouth. Called in Christ. Iude. thou bring forward on their iourney after a godly sort, thou shalt doe well: 7 Because that for his Names sake they went foorth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 8 We therefore ought to receiue such, that we might be fellow helpers to the truth. 9 I wrote vnto the Church, but Diotrephes, who loueth to haue the preeminence among them, receiueth vs not. 10 Wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against vs with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth hee himselfe receiue the brethren, Hee exhorteth them to bee constant in the profession of the faith. 14 False teachers are crept in to seduce them: for whose damnable doctrine and manners horrible punishment is prepared: 20 Whereas the godly, by the assistance of the holy Spirit, and prayers to God, may perseuere, and grow in grace, and keepe themselues, and recouer others out of the snares of those deceiuers. Vde the seruant of Iesus Christ, and brother of Iames, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserued in Iesus Christ, & called: 2 Mercie vnto you, and peace, and loue be multiplied. 3 Beloued, when I gaue all diligence to write vnto you of the common saluation: it was needfull for mee to write vnto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once deliuered vnto the Saints. 4 For there are certaine men crept in Chap. j. Euill Angels. and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the Church. 11 Beloued, follow not that which is euill, but that which is good. He that doth good, is of God: but hee that doth euill, hath not seene God. 12 Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the trueth it selfe: yea, and we also beare record, and ye know that our record is true. 13 I had many things to write, but I will not with inke and pen write vnto thee. 14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and wee shall speake Greet the friends by name. GENERALL of Iude. vnawares, who were before of olde ordained to this condemnation, vngodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciuiousnesse, and denying the onely Lord God, & our Lord Iesus Christ. 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord hauing saued the people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroied them that beleeued not. mouth to mouth. 6 And the Angels which kept not their first estate, but Or, prinleft their own habitation, he hath reserued in euerlasting cipalitie. chaines vnder darkenesse, vnto the iudgement of the great day. 7 Euen as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like maner giuing themselues ouer to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffring the + Gr. other. vengeance of eternall fire. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speake euill of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the Archangel, when contending with the deuill, he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, *The Lord rebuke *Zac. 3. 2. thee. Balaams reward. Iude. 10 But these speake euill of those things, which they know not but what they knowe naturally, as brute beastes, in those things they corrupt themselues. 11 Wo vnto them, for they haue gone in the way of Kain, and ranne greedily after the errour of Balaam, for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spottes in your feasts of charitie, when they feast with you, feeding themselues without feare: cloudes they are without water, caried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twise dead, plucked vp by the rootes. 13 Raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame, wandring stars, to whom is reserued the blacknesse of darkenesse for euer. 14 And Enoch also, the seuenth from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord commeth with ten thousands of his Saints, 15 To execute iudgement vpon all, and to conuince all that are vngodly among them, of all their vngodly deeds which they haue vngodly committed, and of all their heard speaches, which vngodly sinners haue spoken against him. 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The last time. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their owne lustes, and their mouth speaketh great swelling wordes, hauing mens persons in admiration because of aduantage. 17 But beloued, remember yee the words, which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ: 18 How that they tolde you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walke after their own vngodly lustes. 19 These be they who separate themselues, sensual, hauing not the spirit. 20 But yee beloued, building vp your selues on your most holy faith, praying in the holy Ghost, 21 Keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life. 22 And of some haue compassion, making a difference: 23 And others saue with feare, pulling them out of the fire: hating euen the garment spotted by the flesh. 24 Now vnto him that is able to keepe you from falling, and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding ioy, 25 To the onely wise God our Sauiour, be glory and maiestie, dominion and power, now and euer. 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