43 For they loved praise from men(A) more than praise from God.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:43 Lit loved glory of men more than glory of God; v. 41; Jn 5:41

Love: The Superior Way

13 If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,(A)
I am a sounding gong(B) or a clanging cymbal.

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20 and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.(A) The life I now live in the body,[a] I live by faith in the Son of God,(B) who loved(C) me(D) and gave Himself(E) for me.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:20 Or flesh

13 He has rescued(A) us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom(B) of the Son(C) He loves.(D)

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The Christian Life

12 Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved,(A) put on heartfelt compassion, kindness,(B) humility,(C) gentleness,(D) and patience,(E)

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knowing your election,(A) brothers loved(B) by God.(C)

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Stand Firm

13 But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning[a] God has chosen(A) you for salvation through sanctification(B) by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Other mss read because as a firstfruit

16 May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved(A) us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

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Knowing God through Love

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God(A) and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way:[a] God sent(B) His One and Only Son(C) into the world so that we might live(D) through Him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us(E) and sent His Son to be the[b] propitiation(F) for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.(G) 12 No one has ever seen God.[c](H) If we love one another, God remains in[d] us and His love is perfected in us.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:9 Or revealed in us
  2. 1 John 4:10 Or a
  3. 1 John 4:12 Since God is an infinite being, no one can see Him in His absolute essential nature; Ex 33:18-23.
  4. 1 John 4:12 Or remains among

Greeting

Jude,(A) a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James:

To those who are the called,(B) loved[a](C) by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ.(D)

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.(E)

Jude’s Purpose in Writing

Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share,(F) I found it necessary to write and exhort you to contend for the faith(G) that was delivered(H) to the saints once for all. For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago,(I) have come in by stealth;(J) they are ungodly,(K) turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying(L) Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Apostates: Past and Present

Now I want to remind you, though you know all these things: The Lord[b] first[c] saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;(M) and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels(N) who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling. In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah(O) and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions,[d] just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.(P)

Nevertheless, these dreamers likewise defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.(Q) Yet Michael(R) the archangel,(S) when he was disputing with the Devil(T) in a debate about Moses’(U) body, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals—they destroy themselves with these things. 11 Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain,(V) have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam(W) for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.(X)

The Apostates’ Doom

12 These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs[e] at your love feasts.(Y) They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;(Z) trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots; 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars(AA) for whom the blackness of darkness(AB) is reserved forever!(AC)

14 And Enoch,(AD) in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about them:

Look! The Lord comes[f]
with thousands of His holy ones(AE)
15 to execute judgment on all
and to convict them[g]
of all their ungodly(AF) acts
that they have done in an ungodly way,
and of all the harsh things ungodly sinners
have said against Him.

16 These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires;(AG) their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering(AH) people for their own advantage.

17 But you, dear friends, remember what was predicted by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 they told you, “In the end time(AI) there will be scoffers(AJ) walking according to their own ungodly desires.” 19 These people create divisions and are unbelievers,[h](AK) not having the Spirit.

Exhortation and Benediction

20 But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit,(AL) 21 keep yourselves in the love of God,(AM) expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life. 22 Have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them from the fire;(AN) have mercy on others but with fear,(AO) hating(AP) even the garment(AQ) defiled by the flesh.

24 Now to Him(AR) who is able to protect you from stumbling(AS) and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless(AT) and with great joy, 25 to the only(AU) God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord,[i] be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time,[j] now and forever. Amen.

Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:1 Other mss read sanctified
  2. Jude 1:5 Other mss read Jesus/Joshua, God, or God Christ
  3. Jude 1:5 Other mss place first after remind you
  4. Jude 1:7 Lit and went after other flesh
  5. Jude 1:12 Or like spots
  6. Jude 1:14 Or came
  7. Jude 1:15 Lit convict all
  8. Jude 1:19 Or natural
  9. Jude 1:25 Other mss omit through Jesus Christ our Lord
  10. Jude 1:25 Other mss omit before all time

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