The Letters
- When
- c. AD 65–80
- Written by
- Jude, brother of James
- Chapters
- 1
The big idea
A short, urgent call to contend for the faith once delivered to the saints, against those who turn grace into license. It closes with a great doxology.
Themes
- Contend for the faith
- Keep yourselves in God’s love
- A warning against corruption
- Praise
Memory verse
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Key passages
- 3Contend for the faith
- 5–16Examples of judgment
- 20–23Keep yourselves
- 24–25To him who is able
Links to other Scripture
- 2 Peter 2A sister warning
- Genesis 19Sodom and Gomorrah
- Numbers 16Korah’s rebellion
- Zechariah 3:2The Lord rebuke you
Read the text
Choose a chapter to read it here in the King James Version. Verses with a dotted underline have notes from Bible scholars. Tap one to open them.
Notes from
Chapters
King James text and the commentaries of Henry, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Gill, Clarke, Calvin, and Keil and Delitzsch are in the public domain. Tyndale Open Study Notes are used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, from tyndaleopenresources.com. Texts were reformatted for this site.
Journal prompts
Keep a journal or notebook for your study. Write your answers there, in your own words.
- Where do you see Christ in this book?
- Jude says to contend for the faith once delivered. What is worth holding firm to?
- Keep yourselves in the love of God. What are the habits that help you stay there?
- Jude closes with a doxology to the one who is able to keep you from falling. Write your own short doxology.
- In one sentence, this book is about…