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may mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.(A)

Occasion for Writing. Beloved, although I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation,[a] I now feel a need to write to encourage you to contend for the faith that was once for all handed down to the holy ones.(B) For there have been some intruders, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, godless persons, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.(C)

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  1. 3–4 Our common salvation: the teachings of the Christian faith derived from the apostolic preaching and to be kept by the Christian community.

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