New American Standard Bible 1995

Jude 1:1-7

1 1 2Jude, a 3bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of 4James,

To 5those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and 6kept for Jesus Christ: 2 7May mercy and peace and love 8be multiplied to you.

3 9Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our 10common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you 11contend earnestly for 12the faith which was once for all 13handed down to 14the 15saints. 4For certain persons have 16crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand 17 18marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn 19the grace of our God into 20licentiousness and 21deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5Now I desire to 22remind you, though 23you know all things once for all, that 24the Lord, 25after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, 26subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. 6And 27angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has 28kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7just as 29Sodom and Gomorrah and the 30cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and 31went after 32strange flesh, are exhibited as an 33 34example in undergoing the 35punishment of eternal fire.

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1. Jude 1:1 Gr Judas ↩
2. Jude 1:1 Matt 13:55; Mark 6:3; [Luke 6:16; John 14:22; Acts 1:13] ↩
3. Jude 1:1 Rom 1:1 ↩
4. Jude 1:1 Or Jacob ↩
5. Jude 1:1 Rom 1:6f ↩
6. Jude 1:1 John 17:11f; 1 Pet 1:5; Jude 21 ↩
7. Jude 1:2 Gal 6:16; 1 Tim 1:2 ↩
8. Jude 1:2 1 Pet 1:2; 2 Pet 1:2 ↩
9. Jude 1:3 Heb 6:9; Jude 1, 17, 20 ↩
10. Jude 1:3 Titus 1:4 ↩
11. Jude 1:3 1 Tim 6:12 ↩
12. Jude 1:3 Acts 6:7; Jude 20 ↩
13. Jude 1:3 2 Pet 2:21 ↩
14. Jude 1:3 Acts 9:13 ↩
15. Jude 1:3 Or holy ones ↩
16. Jude 1:4 Gal 2:4; 2 Tim 3:6 ↩
17. Jude 1:4 Or written about...long ago ↩
18. Jude 1:4 1 Pet 2:8 ↩
19. Jude 1:4 Acts 11:23 ↩
20. Jude 1:4 2 Pet 2:7 ↩
21. Jude 1:4 2 Tim 2:12; Titus 1:16; 2 Pet 2:1; 1 John 2:22 ↩
22. Jude 1:5 2 Pet 1:12f; 3:1f ↩
23. Jude 1:5 1 John 2:20 ↩
24. Jude 1:5 Two early mss read Jesus ↩
25. Jude 1:5 Ex 12:51; 1 Cor 10:5-10; Heb 3:16f ↩
26. Jude 1:5 Lit the second time ↩
27. Jude 1:6 2 Pet 2:4 ↩
28. Jude 1:6 2 Pet 2:9 ↩
29. Jude 1:7 Gen 19:24f; 2 Pet 2:6 ↩
30. Jude 1:7 Deut 29:23; Hos 11:8 ↩
31. Jude 1:7 2 Pet 2:2 ↩
32. Jude 1:7 Lit different or other flesh ↩
33. Jude 1:7 Or example of eternal fire, in undergoing punishment ↩
34. Jude 1:7 2 Pet 2:6 ↩
35. Jude 1:7 Matt 25:41; 2 Thess 1:8f; 2 Pet 3:7 ↩

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