Verse
Jude 1:3 — Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common…
“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”
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The verses around Jude 1:3.
1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
2Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Verse explanation
Jude explains that he had intended to write about salvation in general, but changed his plan on learning of an urgent problem: he asks readers to ‘earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints,’ as the King James wording puts it, against those who were distorting it.
From the Jude 1 study in Bible in Stories.
Jude 1:3 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Amados, procurando eu escrever-vos com toda a diligencia ácerca da salvação commum, tive por necessidade escrever-vos, e exhortar-vos a batalhar pela fé que uma vez foi entregue aos sanctos.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Amados, procurando eu vos escrever com todo empenho sobre a [nossa] salvação comum, eu tive por necessário vos escrever e exortar a batalhar pela fé que de uma vez foi entregue aos santos.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Amigos, desde antes ya anhelaba la oportunidad de escribirles acerca de la salvación de la cual somos partícipes. Pero ahora necesito escribirles urgentemente y animarlos a defender enérgicamente la verdad acerca de Dios, que fue dada una vez y para siempre al pueblo santo de Dios.
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