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| | <center><small>''Exhortation to constancy.<br/>Warnings against corrupt teachers and doctrines.</small></center> | | <center><small>''Exhortation to constancy.<br/>Warnings against corrupt teachers and doctrines.</small></center> |
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| | '''1''' Jude, the servant of [[Jesus Christ]], and brother of [[James]]<ref>[[Luke, Chapter 6|Luk 6:16]], [[Acts, Chapter 1|Act 1:13]]</ref>, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved<ref>[[John, Chapter 17|Joh 17:1]]</ref> in Jesus Christ, and called<ref>[[Romans, Chapter 1|Rom 1:7]]</ref>: | | '''1''' Jude, the servant of [[Jesus Christ]], and brother of [[James]]<ref>[[Luke, Chapter 6|Luk 6:16]], [[Acts, Chapter 1|Act 1:13]]</ref>, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved<ref>[[John, Chapter 17|Joh 17:1]]</ref> in Jesus Christ, and called<ref>[[Romans, Chapter 1|Rom 1:7]]</ref>: |
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| | '''2''' Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. | | '''2''' Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. |
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| − | '''3''' Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation<ref>[[Titus, Chapter 1|Tit 1:4]]</ref>, 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. | + | '''3''' Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common [[salvation]]<ref>[[Titus, Chapter 1|Tit 1:4]]</ref>, 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. |
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| − | '''4''' For there are certain men crept in unawares<ref>[[Romans, Chapter 9|Rom 9:21]], [[1st Peter, Chapter 2|1 Pet 2:8]]</ref>, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace<ref>[[Titus, Chapter 2|Tit 2:11]], [[Hebrews, Chapter 12|Heb 12:15]]</ref> of our God into lasciviousness, and denying<ref>[[2nd Peter, Chapter 2|2 Pet 2:1]], [[1st John, Chapter 2|1 Joh 2:22]]</ref> the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. | + | '''4''' For there are certain men crept in unawares<ref>[[Romans, Chapter 9|Rom 9:21]], [[1st Peter, Chapter 2|1 Pet 2:8]]</ref><ref>The elegant "unawares" is also used in [[Hebrews, Chapter 13|Hebrews 13:2]].</ref>, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace<ref>[[Titus, Chapter 2|Tit 2:11]], [[Hebrews, Chapter 12|Heb 12:15]]</ref> of our God into lasciviousness, and denying<ref>[[2nd Peter, Chapter 2|2 Pet 2:1]], [[1st John, Chapter 2|1 John 2:22]]</ref> the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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| | '''5''' I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them<ref>[[Hebrews, Chapter 3|Heb 3:17,19]], [[Numbers, Chapter 14|Num 14:29]]</ref> that believed not. | | '''5''' I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them<ref>[[Hebrews, Chapter 3|Heb 3:17,19]], [[Numbers, Chapter 14|Num 14:29]]</ref> that believed not. |