Jude 1:3
Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
2Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:10And the LORD delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake 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 unto 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 in none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.
Acts 9:22But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.
Acts 17:3opening and alleging, that it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom, said he, I proclaim unto 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 →