Jude 1:3
Beloved, making all diligence to write to you about the common salvation, I had need to write to you exhorting you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the sanctified.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:10And LORD delivered to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God. And on them [was] according to all the words, which LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
Nehemiah 13:25And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for
Isaiah 45:22Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.
Acts 4:12And salvation is not in any other man, for there is no other name under the heaven, that has been given among men, by which we must be saved.
Acts 9:22But Saul was strengthened more, and was confounding the Jews who dwell at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 17:3explaining and pointing out that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead, and, This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.
Matthew Henry on Jude 1:2-3
Completed by John Billingsley . This epistle is styled (as are some few others) general or Catholic, because it is not immediately directed to any particular person, family, or church, but to the whole society of Christians of that time, lately converted to the faith of Christ, whether from Judaism or paganism: and it is, and will be, of standing, lasting, and special use in and to the church as long as Christianity, that is, as time, shall last. The general scope of it is much the same with that of the second… Read the whole commentary →