Jude 1:2 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) May there be mercy toward you people, and may your peace and love increase. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition May mercy, [soul] peace, and love be multiplied to you. American Standard Version (1901) Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. Common English Bible May you have more and more mercy, peace, and love. Catholic Public Domain Version May mercy, and peace, and love be fulfilled in you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Mercy unto you, and peace, and charity be fulfilled. |
All of you there in Rome [i.e., the church there] are also among such obedient believers. You are called Jesus Christ’s [people], loved by God and called to be His holy people. May you have unearned favor and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
To all those people who live by this rule, may there be peace and mercy [from God] in their lives; that is, upon [those people who are truly] God’s “Israel” [i.e., the church].
[It is being sent] to Timothy, my true son in the faith [i.e., in the realm of Christianity, not in a physical sense]. May you have unearned favor, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
These people have been [specially] selected, and [their acceptance was] pre-planned by God the Father, and they were set apart through [the work of] the Holy Spirit. This resulted in their obedience and sprinkling [Note: This is a figurative reference to the Old Testament practice of cleansing, See Exodus 24:7-8] by the blood of Jesus Christ. May God’s unearned favor and peace be continually upon you.
[May God’s] unearned favor and peace be yours in abundance, through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.