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The Abridged Letter from Jude

What is the Letter from Jude?

A short letter calling out people in the church. Has a lot of references to past people and events.

Summary - Top

Pt 1

Ch 1.

Summary and Background

Stats

Other Names
Jude

Author
Pseudapigrapha by Jude, Brother of Jesus

Setting Range
68CE

Categories
Canon Epistles

Academic Composition Range
90CE-120CE

Historical Preservation
Fully Preserved

Public Domain Translations
KJVASVBBEYLTWEB

Abridged Status
Finished- 0% Remaining

Original Verse Count
25

Original Word Count
608

Abridged Word Count
238

Abridged Length
39%

History and Background of the Letter from Jude

What do scholars and theologians know about the Letter from Jude?

Almost didn't make it into canon.

Part 1

Chapter 1

1:1. To: Christians
From: Jude, brother of James

1:1. Jude, 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:

1:2. Love, mercy, and peace be with you!

1:2. Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

1:3-4. I wanted to write a happy letter about our common interests, but I need to write about some evil spies in our church instead.

1:3. 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.

1:4. For 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.

1:5. God saved Moses and the Israelites from Egypt, but he also destroyed among them those who didn't listen.

1:5. I 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.

1:6. God has locked up angels who didn't listen.

1:6. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

1:7. God punished Sodom and Gomorrah for having unpure desires, and made an example of them.

1:7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

1:8. These spies do the same thing. They make their bodies unpure and have no respect for authority.

1:8. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

1:9. Even Michael the Archangel only fights with God's authority.

1:9. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

1:10. These evil people do whatever they want, and this is going to destroy them.

1:10. But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

1:11. They are like Cain and Korah, two rebels from our history.

1:11. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

1:12-13. They are really evil. They show up to the party just to eat the food and leave. There is no benefit to them at all.

1:12. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

1:13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

1:14-15. Even Enoch warned about people like this.

1:14. And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

1:15. To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

1:16. They judge others and boast about themselves.

1:16. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

1:17-19. But- Jesus' students did warn about stuff like this- the people who will divide you because they do not have the Holy Spirit and only care about their own unpure desires.

1:17. But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

1:18. How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

1:19. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

1:20-21. But keep strong while you wait on Jesus to return, and pray with the Holy Spirit.

1:20. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

1:21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

1:22-23. Be kind to those who doubt, save those in trouble, and show others mercy, but keep on your toes.

1:22. And of some have compassion, making a difference:

1:23. And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

1:24-25. In Jesus' name, Amen.

1:24. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

1:25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

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