Jude 1:4

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Some people have secretly entered your group. These people have already been judged guilty for what they are doing. Long ago the prophets wrote about them. They are against God. They have used the grace of our God in the wrong way—to do sinful things. They refuse to follow Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Cross References

Galatians 2:4

We needed to talk about these problems, because some who pretended to be our brothers had come into our group secretly. They came in like spies to find out about the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to make us slaves,

2 Peter 2:10

That punishment is for those who are always doing the evil that their sinful selves want to do. It is for those who hate the Lord’s authority. These false teachers do whatever they want, and they are so proud of themselves. They are not afraid even to say bad things against the glorious ones.

1 John 2:22

So who is the liar? It is the one who says Jesus is not the Messiah. Whoever says that is the enemy of Christ—the one who does not believe in the Father or in his Son.

1 Peter 2:16

Live like free people, but don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as those who are serving God.

1 Peter 2:8

For them he is also “a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes people fall.” Isaiah 8:14 People stumble because they don’t obey what God says. This is what God planned to happen to those people.

2 Timothy 3:6

Some of them go into homes and get control over weak women, whose lives are full of sin—women who are led into sin by all the things they want.

Galatians 5:13

My brothers and sisters, God chose you to be free. But don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do what pleases your sinful selves. Instead, serve each other with love.

2 Peter 3:7

And that same word of God is keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. They are being kept to be destroyed by fire. They are kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against God.

Psalm 62:2

He is my Rock, the only one who can save me. He is my high place of safety, where no army can defeat me.

Psalm 1:1

Great blessings belong to those who don’t listen to evil advice, who don’t live like sinners, and who don’t join those who make fun of God.

Jude 1:15

to judge everyone. He will punish all those who are against him for all the evil they have done in their lack of respect for him. Yes, the Lord will punish all these sinners who don’t honor him. He will punish them for all the evil things they have said against him.”

1 Peter 4:18

“If it is hard for even a good person to be saved, what will happen to the one who is against God and full of sin?” Proverbs 11:31 (Greek version)

Ephesians 4:14

Then we will no longer be like babies. We will not be people who are always changing like a ship that the waves carry one way and then another. We will not be influenced by every new teaching we hear from people who are trying to deceive us—those who make clever plans and use every kind of trick to fool others into following the wrong way.

Acts 15:24

We have heard that some men have come to you from our group. What they said troubled and upset you. But we did not tell them to do this.

Acts 11:23

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. When he went to Antioch and saw how God had blessed the believers there, he was very happy. He encouraged them all, saying, “Always be faithful to the Lord. Serve him with all your heart.” Many more people became followers of the Lord.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.

Matthew 13:25

That night, while everyone was asleep, the man’s enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat and then left.

Revelation 15:4

All people will fear you, O Lord. All people will praise your name. Only you are holy. All people will come and worship before you, because it is clear that you do what is right.”

2 Samuel 22:5

Waves of death were crashing around me. A deadly flood was carrying me away.

1 Timothy 5:8

Everyone should take care of all their own people. Most important, they should take care of their own family. If they do not do that, then they do not accept what we believe. They are worse than someone who does not even believe in God.

2 Timothy 2:12

If we remain faithful even in suffering, we will also rule with him. If we refuse to say we know him, he will refuse to say he knows us.

2 Peter 2:7

But he saved Lot, a good man who lived there. Lot was greatly troubled by the morally bad lives of those evil people.

Jude 1:18

They told you, “In the last times there will be people who laugh at God and do only what they want to do—things that are against God.”