Jude 1:5
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.
- ASV
- Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
- DARBY
- But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of [the] land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed.
- BLB
- Now I want to remind you⁺—you⁺ knowing all things once for all—that Jesus, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, secondly destroyed those not having believed.
- ÅB
- Men da dere nå engang vet alt, vil jeg minne dere om at Herren, etter at han hadde frelst folket ut av Egypt, siden ødela dem som ikke trodde,
- OTB
- Nå ønsker jeg å minne dere, selv om dere vet alt en gang for alle, at Herren, etter å ha frelst et folk ut av Egyptens land, senere ødela dem som ikke trodde.
- B1930
- Men da I nu engang vet alt, vil jeg minne eder om at Herren, efterat han hadde frelst folket ut av Egyptens land, siden ødela dem som ikke trodde,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 26:64–65
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Read in contextHebrews 3:16–4:2
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:1–12
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
Read in contextPsalms 106:26
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
Read in contextNumbers 14:22–37
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:15–16
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
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