Jude 1:4 Cross References - Living_Oracles

⁴ For certain men have come in privily, who long ago were before written to this very condemnation; ungodly men, perverting the favor of our God to lasciviousness, and denying the only sovereign Lord, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁵ but while people were asleep, his enemy came, and sowed darnel among the wheat, and went off.

¹³ For you, brethren, have been called into liberty; only use not this liberty for an occasion to the flesh; but through love, assiduously serve one another.

⁸ a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. Those who stumble at the word, are disobedient unbelievers, to which, therefore, they were appointed:

¹⁶ Live as freemen, yet do not use your freedom as a covering of wickedness; but as the servants of God.

¹⁸ And, if the righteous with difficulty escape, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear!

³ Now this is the life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus, the Messiah, thy Apostle.

²³ Who, when he was come, and beheld the favor of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all to adhere to the Lord, with full determination of heart;

²⁴ Forasmuch as we have been informed that, some going out from among us, to whom we gave no commission, have troubled you with discourses, unsettling your minds, saying, that you must be circumcised, and keep the law:

¹ What do we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that favor may abound? ² By no means. How shall we, who have died to sin, continue to live in it?

²¹ Has not the potter a just power over the clay, to make of the same lump one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor? ²² Yet God, willing to show his wrath, and make know his power, did bear, with much long-suffering, the vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction.

⁴ even on account of the false brethren secretly introduced; (who came in privily to spy out our liberty, which we have by Jesus Christ, that they might bring us into bondage;)

¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sight of men, and by cunning craftiness for an artifice of seduction:

¹⁵ which appearance, at the proper season, the blessed and only Potentate, the King of king, and Lord of lords will exhibit; ¹⁶ who only has immortality-dwelling in light inaccessible; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and might everlasting. Amen.

⁶ Of these, indeed, are they who go into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts;

¹⁵ To the pure, all meats are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure; for both their understanding and conscience are polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God; but by works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.

¹¹ For the favor of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men; ¹² teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world-

¹⁵ carefully observing, lest any one come short of the favor of God; lest some bitter root springing up, trouble you, and by it many be polluted; ¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who, for one meal, gave away his birthrights.

¹ But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you; who will privately introduce destructive sects, denying even the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. ² And many will follow their lewd practices, on account of whom, they way of truth will be evil spoken of. ³ And through covetousness, they will make merchandise of you, by fictitious tales: to whom the punishment threatened of old lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.

⁵ and did not spare the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth, a proclaimer of righteousness, when he brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ and having reduced to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, punished them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who should afterward live ungodly:

¹⁰ but especially those who go after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and who despise government: being audacious, self-willed, who fear not to revile dignitaries;

¹⁸ for, speaking great swelling words of falsehood, they allure by the lusts of the flesh, even by lasciviousness, those who have actually fled away from them who are living in error. ¹⁹ They promise them liberty, whilst they themselves are slaves of corruption: for every one is enslaved by that which overcomes him. ²⁰ Now, if, having fled away from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and being again entangled, they are overcome by them; their last condition is worse than the first. ²¹ Therefore, it has been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But the saying of the true proverb has happened to them: "The dog is returned to his own vomit; and the washed hog, to its wallowing in the mire."

⁷ But the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured up, being kept for fire to a day of judgment, and destruction of ungodly men.

²² Who is a liar, if not he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

¹⁵ to pass sentence on all, and to convict all the ungodly among them, of all their deeds of ungodliness; which they have impiously committed; and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

⁴ Who should not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art perfect. Surely all nations shall come and worship before thee, because thy righteous judgments are made manifest.