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Jude 3-5
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Jude 3-5
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
Beloved, Fight For The Faith Against Those Seeking To Change Grace Into License
3 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. 4 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.
Remember: The Lord Punished The Unbelieving And The Immoral
5 Now I want to remind you— you knowing[f] all things— that the Lord[g], having once[h] saved[i] the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed the ones not having believed.
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- Jude 1:3 Or, fighting, struggling.
- Jude 1:4 Or, crept-in.
- Jude 1:4 Or, already, long-ago, all-this-time. The word can refer to hours or centuries in the past.
- Jude 1:4 Or, written-of.
- Jude 1:4 Or, more negatively, perverting.
- Jude 1:5 Jude may mean although you are knowing; or, since you are knowing.
- Jude 1:5 that the Lord. Some manuscripts say ‘that Jesus’.
- Jude 1:5 Or, once-for-all, as in v 3. Some manuscripts instead have this word earlier, ‘knowing all things once-for-all’.
- Jude 1:5 Or, delivered.
Jude 3-5
New International Version
Jude 3-5
New International Version
The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People
3 Dear friends,(A) although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share,(B) I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend(C) for the faith(D) that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.(E) 4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about[a] long ago have secretly slipped in among you.(F) 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.(G)
5 Though you already know all this,(H) I want to remind you(I) that the Lord[b] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.(J)
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