Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.

[a]Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the [b]common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, to exhort you, that ye should earnestly [c]contend for the maintenance of the faith, which was [d]once given unto the Saints.

[e]For there are certain men crept in, which were before of old ordained to this condemnation: [f]ungodly men they are, which turn the grace of our God into wantonness, and (A)deny God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:3 The end and mark whereat he shooteth in this Epistle is that he confirmeth the godly against certain wicked men, both in wholesome doctrine and good manners.
  2. Jude 1:3 Of those things that pertain to the salvation of all of us.
  3. Jude 1:3 That ye should defend the faith by all the might you can, both by true doctrine and good example of life.
  4. Jude 1:3 Which was once so given, that it may never be changed.
  5. Jude 1:4 It is by God’s providence and not by chance, that many wicked men creep into the Church.
  6. Jude 1:4 He condemneth this first in them, that they take a pretense or occasion to wax wanton, by the grace of God: which cannot be, but the chief empire of Christ must be abrogated, in that such men give up themselves to Satan: as at this time the sect of the Anabaptists doth, which they call Libertines.

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