21 And keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life.

22 [a]And have compassion of some, in putting difference:

23 And others save with [b]fear, pulling them out of the fire, and hate even that [c]garment which is spotted by the flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:22 Among them which wander and go astray, the godly have to use this choice, that they handle some of them gently, and that others some being even in the very flame, they endeavor to save with severe and sharp instruction of the present danger: yet so, that they do in such sort abhor the wicked and dishonest, that they eschew even the least contagion that may be.
  2. Jude 1:23 By fearing them, and holding them back with godly severity.
  3. Jude 1:23 An amplification taken from the forbidden things of the Law which did defile.

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