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Jude 1:4

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2 Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

3 Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5 Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

6 And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

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BSB
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
KJV
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.
WEB
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
ASV
For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
DARBY
For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons], turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
BLB
For certain men came in stealthily, those having been designated long ago unto this judgment, ungodly ones changing the grace of our God into sensuality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
ÅB
For noen mennesker har sneket seg inn, som denne dom allerede for lenge siden er oppskrevet for: ugudelige, som forvender vår Guds nåde til skamløshet og nekter vår eneste hersker og herre, Jesus Kristus.
OTB
For visse individer har sneket seg inn ubemerket, de som for lenge siden ble bestemt for denne fordømmelsen, ugudelige personer som forvrenger vår Guds nåde til usømmelig oppførsel og fornekter vår eneste Suverene og Herre, Jesus Kristus.
B1930
For nogen mennesker har sneket sig inn, som denne dom allerede for lenge siden er opskrevet for: ugudelige, som forvender vår Guds nåde til skamløshet og nekter vår eneste hersker og herre, Jesus Kristus.

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Cross references

  • 2 Peter 2:1–3

    Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

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  • Galatians 2:4

    This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

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  • 2 Peter 2:10

    Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

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  • Titus 1:15–16

    To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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  • 1 Peter 2:16

    Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

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  • 1 John 2:22

    Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

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  • 2 Peter 2:18–22

    With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

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  • 1 Peter 2:8

    and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.

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