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Jude 1:3
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Greeting to the Called

1 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and abrother of James, To those who are bcalled, sanctified by God the Father, and cpreserved in Jesus Christ:  
2 Mercy, apeace, and love be multiplied to you.  

Contend for the Faith

3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you aconcerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting byou to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.  
4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord1 God and our Lord Jesus Christ.  

Old and New Apostates

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that athe Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.  
6 And the angels who did not keep their1 proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;  
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Jude 1:3

Beloved (agaphtoi). As in III John 1:2.

All diligence (pasan spoudhn). As in II Peter 1:5.

Of our common salvation (peri thv koinhv hmwn swthriav). See this use of koinov (common to all) in Titus 1:4 with pistiv, while in II Peter 1:1 we have isotimon pistin, which see.

I was constrained (anagkhn esxon). "I had necessity" like Luke 14:18; Hebrews 7:27.

To contend earnestly (epagwnizesqai). Late and rare (in Plutarch, inscriptions) compound, here only in N.T. A little additional (epi) striving to the already strong agwnizesqai (agwn contest). Cf. I Timothy 6:12 agwnizou ton kalon agwna.

For the faith (th—pistei). Dative of advantage. Here not in the original sense of trust, but rather of the thing believed as in verse Judges 1:20; Galatians 1:23; Galatians 3:23; Philippians 1:27.

Once for all delivered (apac paradoqeish). First aorist passive participle feminine dative singular of paradidwmi, for which see II Peter 2:21. See also II Thessalonians 2:15; I Corinthians 11:2; I Timothy 6:20.


 
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