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Jude 3-5
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Contend for the Faith

3 Dear friends, although I[a] was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered it a necessity to write to you to encourage you to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints. 4 For certain men[b] have slipped in stealthily, who were designated long ago for this condemnation, ungodly ones, who change the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

Condemnation of the Ungodly False Teachers

5 Now I want to remind you, although you know everything once and for all,[c] that Jesus,[d] having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe.

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Footnotes

  1. Jude 1:3 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was making”) which is understood as concessive
  2. Jude 1:4 Or “people,” since the Greek term can be used in a generic sense, but if this statement is related to 2 Peter 2:12, it is more likely men are in view
  3. Jude 1:5 Some manuscripts place this word in the following clause
  4. Jude 1:5 Some manuscripts have “the Lord”
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