Jude 1:3
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:10And the LORD delivered to me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spoke with you in the mount, from 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 to your sons, or for yourselves.
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 4:12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other name under heaven given among men, by which we must be saved.
Acts 9:22But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
Acts 17:3Opening and alledging, that it was needful that Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach to you, is 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 →