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Jude 1:4
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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;  
7 as aSodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the1 vengeance of eternal fire.  
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Jude 1:4

Are crept in (pareiseduhsan). Second aorist passive indicative of pareisduw (-nw), late (Hippocrates, Plutarch, etc.) compound of para (beside) and eiv (in) and duw to sink or plunge, so to slip in secretly as if by a side door, here only in N.T.

Set forth (progegrammenoi). Perfect passive participle of prografw, to write of beforehand, for which verb see Galatians 3:1; Romans 15:4.

Unto this condemnation (eiv touto to krima). See II Peter 2:3 for krima and ekpalai. Palai here apparently alludes to verses Judges 1:14-15 (Enoch).

Ungodly men (asebeiv). Keynote of the Epistle (Mayor), in Judges 1:15 again as in II Peter 2:5; II Peter 3:7.

Turning (metatiqentev). Present active participle of metatiqhmi, to change, for which verb see Galatians 1:6. For the change of "grace" (xarita) into "lasciviousness (eiv aselgeian) see I Peter 2:16; I Peter 4:3; II Peter 2:19; II Peter 3:16.

Our only Master and Lord (ton monon despothn kai kurion hmwn). For the force of the one article for one person see on II Peter 1:1. For despothn of Christ see II Peter 2:1.

Denying (arnoumenoi). So II Peter 2:1. See also Matthew 10:33; I Timothy 5:8; Titus 1:16; I John 2:22.


 
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