Jude 1:3
Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting [you] to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:10and Jehovah delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them [was written] according to all the words which Jehovah spoke with you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on 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 adjured them by God [saying], Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Isaiah 45:22Look unto 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 in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given among men by which we must be saved.
Acts 9:22But Saul increased the more in power, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 17:3opening and laying down that the Christ must have suffered and risen up from among the dead, and that this is the Christ, Jesus whom *I* announce to you.
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 →