Jude 3-5
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.
5 [g]I will therefore put you in remembrance, forasmuch as ye once knew this, how that the Lord, after that he had delivered the people out of Egypt, (B)destroyed them afterward which believed not.
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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 1:5 He setteth forth the horrible punishment of them which have abuseth the grace of God to follow their own lusts.
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