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Jude 1:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Dear friends, keep building on the foundation of your most holy faith, as the Holy Spirit helps you to pray.

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I, the LORD, will make the descendants of David and the people of Jerusalem feel deep sorrow and pray when they see the one they pierced with a spear. They will mourn and weep for him, as parents weep over the death of their only child or their firstborn.

God treated them in the same way that he treated us. They put their faith in him, and he made their hearts pure.

I want you to open their eyes, so that they will turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. Then their sins will be forgiven, and by faith in me they will become part of God's holy people.”

God's message spread, and many more people in Jerusalem became followers. Even a large number of priests put their faith in the Lord.

The church in Judea, Galilee, and Samaria now had a time of peace and kept on worshipping the Lord. The church became stronger, as the Holy Spirit encouraged it and helped it grow.

We should think of their good and try to help them by doing what pleases them.

God's Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are afraid of him. Instead, we become his children and call him our Father.

And until the day Christ does return, he will keep you completely innocent.

Some of you say, “We can do whatever we want to!” But I tell you that not everything may be good or helpful.

Then what should I do? There are times when I should pray with my spirit, and times when I should pray with my mind. Sometimes I should sing with my spirit, and at other times I should sing with my mind.

My friends, when you meet to worship, you must do everything for the good of everyone there. That's how it should be when someone sings or teaches or tells what God has said or speaks an unknown language or explains what the language means.

Now that we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. And his Spirit tells us that God is our Father.

so that his people would learn to serve and his body would grow strong.

of the body. Christ holds it together and makes all its parts work perfectly, as it grows and becomes strong because of love.

Stop all your dirty talk. Say the right thing at the right time and help others by what you say.

Never stop praying, especially for others. Always pray by the power of the Spirit. Stay alert and keep praying for God's people.

Plant your roots in Christ and let him be the foundation for your life. Be strong in your faith, just as you were taught. And be grateful.

That's why you must encourage and help each other, just as you are already doing.

You needed to warn them to stop wasting their time on senseless stories and endless lists of ancestors. Such things only cause arguments. They don't help anyone to do God's work that can only be done by faith.

I also remember the genuine faith of your mother Eunice. Your grandmother Lois had the same sort of faith, and I am sure that you have it as well.

From Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I encourage God's own people to have more faith and to understand the truth about religion.

Now you see how Abraham's faith and deeds worked together. He proved that his faith was real by what he did.

From Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ. To everyone who shares with us in the privilege of believing that our God and Saviour Jesus Christ will do what is just and fair.

Every child of God can defeat the world, and our faith is what gives us this victory.

My dear friends, I really wanted to write to you about God's saving power at work in our lives. But instead, I must write and ask you to defend the faith that God has once for all given to his people.

If you are doomed to be captured, you will be captured. If you are doomed to be killed by a sword, you will be killed by a sword. This means that God's people must learn to endure and be faithful!




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