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May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

Beloved, Fight For The Faith Against Those Seeking To Change Grace Into License

Beloved, while making every effort to be writing to you concerning our common salvation, I had the necessity to write to you exhorting you to be contending[a] for the faith having been delivered once-for-all to the saints. For certain persons sneaked-in[b]— the ones formerly[c] having been portrayed[d] for this judgment, ungodly ones— changing[e] the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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  1. Jude 1:3 Or, fighting, struggling.
  2. Jude 1:4 Or, crept-in.
  3. Jude 1:4 Or, already, long-ago, all-this-time. The word can refer to hours or centuries in the past.
  4. Jude 1:4 Or, written-of.
  5. Jude 1:4 Or, more negatively, perverting.

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