Jude 1:3
Beloved, using all diligence to write to you concerning our common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting [you] to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones,
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2mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:10and YHWH gives to me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them [is] according to all the words which YHWH has spoken with you on the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly.
Nehemiah 13:25And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and strike certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, “You do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do you take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.
Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth, || For I [am] God, and there is none else.
Acts 4:12and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under Heaven that has been given among men, in which it is required of us to be saved.”
Acts 9:22And Saul was still more strengthened, and he was confounding the Jews dwelling in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 17:3opening and alleging that it was necessary [for] the Christ to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that “this is the Christ—Jesus whom I proclaim 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 →