Jude (WK) - Bible Truth Library

20-25: whereas the godly, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, and prayers to God, may persevere, and grow in grace, and keep themselves, and recover others out of the snares of those deceivers.

A. D. 66.

A. M. 4070.Jude.

Matt. 10:3• ³{i}Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax-gatherer; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, who was surnamed Thaddaeus;{/i} (Matt. 10:3)

Lebbeus, Thaddeus.

Mark 3:18• ¹⁸{i}and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,{/i} (Mark 3:18)

Thaddeus.

Luke 6:16• ¹⁶{i}[and] Judas [brother] of James, and Judas Iscariote, who was also [his] betrayer;{/i} (Luke 6:16)

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John 14:22• ²²Judas, not the Iscariot, saith to him, Lord, [and] how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world? (John 14:22)

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Acts 1:13• ¹³And when they entered, they went up into the upper room where they were abiding; both Peter and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James [son] of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas [brother] of James. (Acts 1:13)

the servant.

John 12:26• ²⁶If anyone serve me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my servant shall be; if anyone serve me, him will my Father honour. (John 12:26)

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Acts 27:23• ²³For an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve stood by me this night, (Acts 27:23)

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Rom. 1:1• ¹Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart unto God's gospel, (Rom. 1:1)

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Rom. 6:22• ²²But now freed from sin, and made bondservants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal. (Rom. 6:22)

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Rom. 16:18• ¹⁸For such as they serve not our Lord [Jesus] Christ, but their own belly, and by kind speaking and fairness of speech deceive the hearts of the harmless. (Rom. 16:18)

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James 1:1• ¹James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that [are] in the dispersion, greeting. (James 1:1)

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2 Peter 1:1• ¹Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ to them that obtained like precious faith with us in virtue of [the] righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: (2 Peter 1:1)

them.

John 15:16• ¹⁶Not ye chose me, but I chose you and appointed you that ye should go and bear fruit, and your fruit abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you. (John 15:16)

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John 17:17,19• ¹⁷Sanctify them by the truth; thy word is truth.
¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified in truth. (John 17:17,19)

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Acts 20:32• ³²And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all that are sanctified. (Acts 20:32)

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1 Cor. 1:2• ²to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, c [persons] sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirs and ours; (1 Cor. 1:2)

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1 Cor. 6:11• ¹¹And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

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Eph. 5:26• ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word, (Eph. 5:26)

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1 Thess. 5:23• ²³Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul and body be preserved entire without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:23)

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1 Peter 1:2• ²elect, according to foreknowledge of God [the] Father, in [the] Spirit's sanctification, unto obedience and blood-sprinkling of Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace be multiplied. (1 Peter 1:2)

preserved.

John 6:39• ³⁹And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. (John 6:39)

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John 10:28‑30• ²⁸and I give them life eternal, and they shall in no wise ever perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.
²⁹My Father who hath given me [them] is greater than all; and no one is able to seize out of the hand of my Father.
³⁰I and the Father are one. (John 10:28‑30)

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John 17:11‑12,15• ¹¹And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one even as [also] we [are].
¹²When I was with them, I was keeping them in thy name which thou hast given me, and I guarded [them], and not one of them perished but the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled.
¹⁵I do not ask that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of the evil. (John 17:11‑12,15)

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2 Tim. 4:18• ¹⁸The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve for his heavenly kingdom; to whom [be] the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. (2 Tim. 4:18)

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1 Peter 1:5• ⁵that are being guarded by God's power through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in a last season. (1 Peter 1:5)

and called.

Rom. 8:30• ³⁰But whom he predetermined, them also he called, and whom he called, them also he justified, and whom he justified, them also he glorified. (Rom. 8:30)

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Rom. 9:24• ²⁴us whom he also called not only out of Jews, but also out of Gentiles, (Rom. 9:24)

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1 Thess. 2:12• ¹²that ye should walk worthily of God that calleth you unto his own kingdom and glory. (1 Thess. 2:12)

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2 Thess. 2:13‑14• ¹³But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of [the] Lord, that God chose you from [the] beginning unto salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth;
¹⁴whereunto he called you by our gospel unto obtaining of [the] glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Thess. 2:13‑14)

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2 Tim. 1:9• ⁹who saved us, and called [us] with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times everlasting, (2 Tim. 1:9)

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Heb. 3:1• ¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, (Heb. 3:1)

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1 Peter 2:9• ⁹But ye [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set out the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness unto his marvellous light; (1 Peter 2:9)

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1 Peter 5:10• ¹⁰But the God of all grace that called you unto his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, after having suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground: (1 Peter 5:10)

• {preserved} The whole passage in Jude is like an answer to the prayer of the blessed Lord in John 17 "Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are." (“Reflections on the Epistle of Jude: Part 1”)

• {beloved} The assurance of being "beloved in God the Father," or "by God the Father," comes into special value…he is looking at them as having gone through a sea of trouble and difficulty, and he is preparing them for worse still. He as it were says, things are not going to get better but worse, and it is to end in the actual appearing of the Lord in judgment (“Jude 1” by W. Kelly)

• {preserved} The Apostle speaks with a view to the forsaking by many of the holy faith; he addresses those who were kept. (“JUDE” by J.N. Darby)

• That which is peculiarly striking in the Epistle of Jude is that he pursues the corruption of the assembly from the creeping in of some unawares on to its final judgment, showing withal that it is not arrested but passes through its various phases to that day. (“JUDE” by J.N. Darby)

• {called} We cannot too often recall the fact that it was God's call that made us saints, and that we are consequently not called to be saints, but saints by divine calling. (article #86561)

• {beloved} Jude thus sets the saints in the immediate presence of God, teaches them that they are the objects of His heart (article #86561)

• {preserved} Secondly, they are preserved in Christ Jesus. The ground, and possibly the means, of their security are thus stated; and it should never be forgotten that if we are kept, preserved in the midst of all the dangers which surround us, and of all the snares and temptations of the evil one, it is only in and through Jesus Christ. (article #86561)

J. N. Darby Translation

Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called ones beloved in God the Father and preserved inc Jesus Christ:

JND Translation Notes

Or, possibly, "by."

W. Kelly Translation

Judea, servantb of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, belovedc in God the Fatherd, and preserved bye Jesus Christ:

WK Translation Notes

The American Revisers like the KJV read "Jude" for "Judas," adding in the margin Gr. Judas. Such variety in English seems undesirable. The Revisers, seem to me fully justified in giving "Judas," save in citations from the Old Testament where they perpetuate the Hebrew form.

The Revisers fail to deal with anarthrous description, which they have represented correctly in the second member, not in the first. Was it not as easy to have said, "servant of Jesus Christ," as "brother of James"? The word "a" is uncalled for in either case. See note to {vi 30376}{/vi}.

The word "sanctified" may be correct in itself, but the word here should be, "to those that are called, beloved," etc. You observe that the word "called" (in the original Greek) occurs at the end of the verse. This word "called" is very emphatic. Then he describes them in two different ways. First, here, in the KJV, it is "sanctified," but as now generally accepted by those who have studied the text fully, it is "beloved in God the Father" (ēgapēmenois "beloved" in the best MSS. and in all the ancient versions, other MSS. have ēgiasmenois "sanctified"). Also, "in" is very often equivalent to (indeed, it is a stronger expression than) "by." But I now give it literally, "beloved in God the Father." I confess myself that not only is this reading the most ancient, the best approved by the highest witnesses that God has given to us of His word, but it is beautifully appropriate to the Epistle.

Or, [the] Father.

Or, "for." It is not exactly "preserved in." It may be "by" or "for." These are the two alternatives for that word. I do not see how it can be "in"; so that you see it little differs from what we read here. It brings in another idea, and it is perfectly true either way. We are preserved by Christ, and we are preserved for Christ. I have not made up my mind which of the two in this instance is right, because they cannot both be the intention of the Spirit of God. One must be right rather than the other, but I cannot say that my judgment is yet formed as to the choice of these two prepositions, whether it should be "preserved for Jesus Christ," or "by" Jesus Christ, He being the great One that does keep us. But in either case, how beautifully it is suited to a time of extra danger, and of danger too that he was not warranted to say would pass!