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Jude warns about people whose conduct undermines the faith they claim. Vivid examples expose arrogance and exploitation. The final instructions turn toward the readers’ own response: building one another up, praying and showing mercy with discernment.
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Notice the people and situations named in the letter. Instructions belong to relationships and concerns, not only to a list of ideas. Summarise a paragraph in your own words, then check whether your summary accounts for all of its parts.
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1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
2May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5Now 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.
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How can the community respond to harmful influence without losing its practice of mercy?
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