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Mercy to you, and peace and love be multiplied.

Beloved, while I diligently wrote to you of the common salvation, it became necessary for me to write to you in exhortation, so that you would earnestly contend for the faith which was once and for all given to the saints.

For some men have crept in who were long ago pre-ordained to this condemnation; ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into wantonness and deny God the only Lord and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Mercy, peace(A) and love be yours in abundance.(B)

The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People

Dear friends,(C) although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share,(D) I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend(E) for the faith(F) that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.(G) For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about[a] long ago have secretly slipped in among you.(H) They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:4 Or individuals who were marked out for condemnation