Jude 1:4 Cross References - Lamsa

⁴ For certain men have falsely entered among you, and these were foreordained from the very beginning to this condemnation; they are ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, and denying the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.

²⁵ And when the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.

³ And this is life eternal, that they might know you, that you are the only true God, even the one who sent Jesus Christ.

²³ When he came there and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he pleaded with them that they should follow our LORD with all their hearts.

²⁴ We have heard that certain men have gone out and disturbed you with words, thus upsetting your souls, saying, You must be circumcised, and keep the law: on these things we have never commanded them.

¹ WHAT shall we then say? Shall we con tinue in sin, that grace may abound? ² Far be it. How shall we who are dead to sin, continue to live in it?

²¹ Does not the potter have power over his clay, to make out of the same lump vessels, one to be formed and the other for service? ²² Now then, if God wanted to shew his anger, and make his power known, would he not then, after the abundance of his patience, bring wrath upon the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction?

⁴ But because of the false brethren who had been brought in unknown to us to spy out the freedom which we have in Jesus Christ, with the intention of enslaving us;

¹³ For, my brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only do not use your liberty for an occasion to the things of the flesh, but by love serve one another.

¹⁴ That we henceforth be not as children easily stirred and carried away by every wind of false doctrines of men who through their craftiness are artful in deceiving the people;

¹⁵ Who is to be revealed in his due time, blessed and all mighty God, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, ¹⁶ Who alone has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach, and whom no man has seen, nor can see: to him be honor and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

⁶ For of this sort are those who creep into houses and captivate women sunken in sin, led away with divers lusts,

¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure: but nothing is pure to those who are defiled and faithless; even their mind and conscience is defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but in works they deny him, and they are abominable, and disobedient, condemning every kind of good work.

¹¹ For the grace of God that brings salvation has been revealed to all men. ¹² It teaches us to renounce ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live in this world soberly, righteously, and in godliness;

¹⁵ Take heed lest any man among you be found short of the grace of God; or lest any root of bitterness spring forth and harm you, and thereby many be defiled; ¹⁶ Or lest any man among you be found immoral and weak like Esau, who sold his birthright for a morsel of meat.

⁸ And they stumble over it because they are disobedient to the word for which they were appointed.

¹⁶ Act as free men, and not as men who use their liberty as a cloak for their maliciousness; but as the servants of God.

¹⁸ And if the righteous scarcely be saved, how shall the wicked and the sinner stand judgment?

¹ BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD who has redeemed them, and thus bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ² Many will follow their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. ³ And through covetousness, they will exploit you with feigned words: whose judgment from the very beginning has not ceased and their damnation is always active.

⁵ And did not spare the old world, but saved Noah the preacher of righteousness, with his family, eight in all, when he brought the flood upon the wicked people; ⁶ And set afire the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemned them with an upheaval, making them an example to those who hereafter should live ungodly;

¹⁰ And especially will he punish those who follow after filthy lusts of the flesh, and have no respect for authority. Arrogant and selfwilled are they who do not tremble when they blaspheme against the glory;

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the sensual lusts of the flesh; but there are those who flee at a word of warning from those who live in error. ¹⁹ They, while they promise liberty, themselves are the slaves of corruption: for a man is overcome by whatever it is that enslaves him. ²⁰ For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through knowledge of our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled by these very things, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. ²¹ Verily it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment that was delivered to them. ²² It will come to pass with them according to the true proverb, The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

⁷ But the present heavens and earth are sustained by his word, and are reserved for fire on the day of judgment which is the day of destruction of ungodly men.

²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is a false christ, and whoever denies the Father, denies the Son also.

¹⁵ To execute judgment upon all, and to punish all who are ungodly for all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and for all the harsh words which the ungodly sinners have spoken. *

⁴ Who shall not fear you, O LORD, and glorify your name? For you only are holy: All nations shall come and worship before you; for your righteousness has been revealed.