Quotes about Jude

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:

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.

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

Jude's use of epagonidzomai means to fight over an issue or to fight for a truth, and it pictures people who are wrestling between issues of truth and deception.

Scripture teaches us to contend for the faith (Jude 3) and contextualize to culture (1 Cor. 9:22-23).

When Jude says, "Pray in the Spirit and keep in the love of God," he expresses the same thought as Paul, namely that the Holy Spirit wants to cherish us in God's love in the same manner that the sun warms us each day.