Jude 1:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀγαπητοί, πᾶσαν σπουδὴν ποιούμενος γράφειν ὑμῖν περὶ τῆς κοινῆς σωτηρίας, ἀνάγκην ἔσχον γράψαι ὑμῖν, παρακαλῶν ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι τῇ ἅπαξ παραδοθείσῃ τοῖς ἁγίοις πίστει.

Transliteration

Agapētoi, all spoudēn poioumenos graphein to you peri the koinēs sōtērias, anagkēn eschon grapsai to you, parakalōn epagōnizesthai the hapax paradotheisē tois hagiois pistei.

Grammar Details

• *Agapētoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - beloved
• *pasan spoudēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - all diligence
• *poioumenos*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - making/doing
• *graphein*: present active infinitive - to write
• *hymin*: dative, plural - to you
• *peri*: preposition + genitive - concerning/about
• *koinēs sōtērias*: genitive, feminine, singular - common salvation
• *anagkēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - necessity
• *eschon*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I had
• *grapsai*: aorist active infinitive - to write
• *parakalōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - exhorting/urging
• *epagōnizesthai*: present middle infinitive - to contend earnestly
• *hapax*: adverb - once for all
• *paradotheisē*: aorist passive participle, dative, feminine, singular - having been delivered
• *tois hagiois*: dative, masculine, plural - to the saints
• *pistei*: dative, feminine, singular - faith

Word Meanings

• *Agapētoi*: beloved/dear ones
• *spoudēn*: diligence/earnestness/haste
• *poioumenos*: making/doing/exercising
• *koinēs*: common/shared/mutual
• *sōtērias*: salvation/deliverance/preservation
• *anagkēn*: necessity/compulsion/constraint
• *parakalōn*: exhorting/urging/encouraging
• *epagōnizesthai*: contend earnestly/struggle for/defend vigorously
• *hapax*: once for all/once and for all time
• *paradotheisē*: delivered/handed down/entrusted
• *hagiois*: saints/holy ones/set apart ones
• *pistei*: faith/belief/trust

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
• Titus 1:4 : 4 To us, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
• Jude 1:20 : 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• Rev 12:11 : 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• Col 1:2 : 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at osse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Thess 2:2 : 2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
• 1 Tim 1:18 : 18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
• 2 Tim 1:13 : 13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Tim 4:7-8 : 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
• Deut 9:10 : 10 And the LORD livered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
• Deut 21:9 : 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
• 2 Pet 3:1-2 : 1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
• Jude 1:17 : 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Heb 13:22 : 22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
• 1 Pet 5:12 : 12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
• 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
• Isa 45:17 : 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• Isa 45:22 : 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
• Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
• Acts 4:12 : 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
• Acts 6:8-9 : 8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and mirles among the people. 9 Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
• Acts 9:22 : 22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
• Acts 13:46-47 : 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
• Acts 17:3 : 3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preh unto you, is Christ.
• Acts 18:4-6 : 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Medonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. 6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
• Acts 18:28 : 28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
• Acts 20:27 : 27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
• Acts 28:28 : 28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
• Rom 15:15-16 : 15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God, 16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
• 1 Cor 15:3 : 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
• Gal 2:5 : 5 To whom we ve place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
• Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 6:11 : 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.
• Eph 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at esus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
• Phil 1:1 : 1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
• 2 Pet 1:12-15 : 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
• Neh 13:25 : 25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.