My Daily Meditation
The Epistle of Jude
1 Jude a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of
James, to them which are called and sanctified of
God the Father, and reserved to Jesus Christ:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto
you of the common salvation, it was needful for
me to write unto you, to exhort you, that ye should
earnestly contend for the maintenance of the faith,
which was once given unto the Saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in, which
were before of old ordained to this condemnation:
ungodly men they are, which turn the grace of our
God into wantonness, and deny God the only Lord,
and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance,
forasmuch as ye once knew this, how that the Lord,
after that he had delivered the people out of Egypt,
destroyed them afterward which believed not.
6 The Angels also which kept not their first
estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved
in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment
of the great day.
7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about
them, which in like manner as they did, committed
fornication, and followed strange flesh, are set forth for
an example, and suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise notwithstanding these sleepers also
defile the flesh, and despise government, and speak
evil of them that are in authority.
9 Yet Michael the Archangel, when he strove
against the devil, and disputed about the body of
Moses, durst not blame him with cursed speaking,
but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things, which
they know not: and whatsoever things they know
naturally as beasts, which are without reason, in
those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe be unto them: for they have followed the
way of Cain, and are cast away by the deceit of Balaam’s
wages, and perish in the gainsaying of Korah.
12 These are rocks in your feasts of charity
themselves: clouds they are without water, carried
about of winds, corrupt trees and without fruit, twice
dead, and plucked up by the roots.
13 They are the raging waves of the sea, foaming
out their own shames: they are wandering stars,
to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
forever.
14 And Enoch also the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of such, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh
with thousands of his Saints,
15 To give judgment against all men, and to rebuke
all the ungodly among them of all their wicked deeds,
which they have ungodly committed, and of all their
cruel speakings, which wicked sinners have spoken
against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking
after their own lusts: whose mouths speak proud
things, having men’s persons in admiration, because
of advantage.
17 But, ye beloved, remember the words which
were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ:
18 How that they told you that there should be
mockers kin the last time, which should walk after
their own ungodly lusts.
19 These are they that separate themselves from
others, natural, having not the Spirit.
20 But, ye beloved, edify yourselves in your most
holy faith, praying in the holy Ghost.
21 And keep yourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto
eternal life.
22 And have compassion of some, in putting
difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out
of the fire, and hate even that garment which is
spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you that
ye fall not, and to present you faultless before the
presence of his glory with joy,
25 That is, to God only wise, our Savior be glory,
and majesty, and dominion, and power, both now
and forever, Amen.
13 Therefore the Lord said, Because this people come near unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me was taught by the precept of men
The Book of Isaiah Chapter 29:13
Read One Psalm a Day
Psalm One Hundred
1 Sing ye loud unto the Lord, all the earth.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before him
with joyfulness.
3 Know ye that even the Lord is God; he hath
made us, and not we ourselves: we are his people,
and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with praise, and into
his courts with rejoicing: praise him and bless his
Name.
5 For the Lord is good: his mercy is everlasting,
and his truth is from generation to generation.
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