Jude 3-4
Wycliffe Bible
3 Most dear brethren [Most dear], I doing all busyness to write to you of your common health, had need to write to you, and pray to strive strongly for the faith that is once taken to saints [for the faith once betaken to saints].
4 For some unfaithful men privily entered, that sometime were before-written into this doom, and overturn the grace of our God into lechery, and deny him that is only a Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ. [Forsooth some men privily entered, that sometime were before-written into this doom, unpious men, overturning the grace of our God into lechery, and denying the alone lordshipper and our Lord Jesus Christ.]
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Jude 3-4
New Matthew Bible
3 Beloveds, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, to exhort you to labour continually in the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints. 4 For there are certain men who have craftily crept in, who were long ago marked out for such judgment. They are ungodly, and turn the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Jude 3-4
1599 Geneva Bible
3 [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.
4 [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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- 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.
- Jude 1:3 Of those things that pertain to the salvation of all of us.
- Jude 1:3 That ye should defend the faith by all the might you can, both by true doctrine and good example of life.
- Jude 1:3 Which was once so given, that it may never be changed.
- Jude 1:4 It is by God’s providence and not by chance, that many wicked men creep into the Church.
- 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.
Jude 3-4
Authorized (King James) Version
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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