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Contemporary English Version

Jude 1:2

I pray that God will greatly bless you with kindness, peace, and love!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anarchy;   Apostasy;   Doctrines;   Hell;   Heresy;   Lasciviousness;   Minister, Christian;   Reprobacy;   Satan;   Speaking;   Wicked (People);   Word of God;   Worldliness;   Zeal, Religious;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mercy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gomorrah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Benediction;   Eschatology;   Greeting;   Jude, the Book of;   Trinity;   King James Dictionary - Mercy;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Reprobate;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jude, Epistle of;   Sod'om;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jude, the Epistle of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for December 5;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
King James Version (1611)
Mercie vnto you, and peace, and loue be multiplied.
King James Version
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
English Standard Version
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
New American Standard Bible
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
New Century Version
Mercy, peace, and love be yours richly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
Berean Standard Bible
Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Complete Jewish Bible
May mercy, love and shalom be yours in full measure.
Darby Translation
Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.
Easy-to-Read Version
Mercy, peace, and love be yours more and more.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Mercie vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied.
George Lamsa Translation
Mercy, and peace, with love, be multiplied unto you.
Good News Translation
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in full measure.
Lexham English Bible
May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
Literal Translation
Mercy and peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Amplified Bible
May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you [filling your heart with the spiritual well-being and serenity experienced by those who walk closely with God].
American Standard Version
Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
Bible in Basic English
May mercy and peace and love be increased in you.
Hebrew Names Version
Mercy to you and shalom and love be multiplied.
International Standard Version
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance![xr]
Etheridge Translation
Mercy and peace in love be multiplied unto you.
Murdock Translation
Mercy and peace in love, be multiplied to you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Mercy vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied.
English Revised Version
Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
World English Bible
Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
and called, Mercy unto you, and peace, and love be multiplied.
Weymouth's New Testament
May mercy, peace and love be abundantly granted to you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
mercy, and pees, and charite be fillid to you.
Update Bible Version
Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
Webster's Bible Translation
Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
New English Translation
May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you!
New King James Version
Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
New Living Translation
May God give you more and more mercy, peace, and love.
New Life Bible
May you have much of God's loving-kindness and peace and love.
New Revised Standard
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mercy to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Mercy unto you and peace: and charity be fulfilled.
Revised Standard Version
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Mercy vnto you and peace and love be multiplied.
Young's Literal Translation
kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Mercy vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied.
Mace New Testament (1729)
mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Here's hoping that God is going to overload you with grace, mercy, and love.

Contextual Overview

1 From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James. To all who are chosen and loved by God the Father and are kept safe by Jesus Christ. 2 I pray that God will greatly bless you with kindness, peace, and love!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Daniel 6:25 - Peace Romans 1:7 - Grace Colossians 1:2 - Grace 1 Peter 1:2 - be 2 Peter 1:2 - Grace

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced all kinds of vegetation. God looked at what he had done, and it was good.
Genesis 1:14

The Fourth Day

God said, "I command lights to appear in the sky and to separate day from night and to show the time for seasons, special days, and years.
Job 26:7
who hung the northern sky and suspended the earth on empty space.
Job 26:14
These things are merely a whisper of God's power at work. How little we would understand if this whisper ever turned into thunder!
Psalms 33:6
The Lord made the heavens and everything in them by his word.
Isaiah 45:18
The Lord alone is God! He created the heavens and made a world where people can live, instead of creating an empty desert. The Lord alone is God; there are no others.
Nahum 2:10
Nineveh is doomed! Destroyed! Her people tremble with fear; their faces turn pale.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied. In this salutation the apostle wishes for a multiplication of "mercy", from God the Father, by whom these persons were sanctified: mercy is a perfection in God; and shows itself in a special manner towards the elect, in the covenant of grace, in the provision of Christ as a Saviour, in the mission of him into this world, in redemption by him, in the forgiveness of sin, in regeneration, and in their whole salvation; and the multiplication of it intends an enlarged view and fresh application of it, which they sometimes stand in need of, as under desertions, when they want the sense and manifestation of it to them; and under temptations and afflictions, when they need sympathy and compassion; and when they fall into sin they stand in need of the fresh discoveries and application of pardoning mercy to them. Moreover, herein is wished for a multiplication of "peace" from Christ, in whom these chosen ones were preserved; and may design a fresh and enlarged view of peace being made for them by his blood, and an increase of conscience peace in their own hearts, as the effect of it; and may include peace, and an abundance of it, among themselves, as well as all prosperity, both external, internal, and eternal: likewise in the salutation, "love", and a multiplication of it is wished for from the Spirit of God, by whom they were called; and may be understood of the love with which God loved them; and which may be said to be multiplied, when it is gradually shed abroad in their hearts by the Spirit, and they are by degrees led into it more and more, and the acts of it are drawn out and set before them one after another, and fresh manifestations of it are made unto them; as in afflictive providences, after the hidings of God's face, and under temptations: and it may design the love with which they love God, which may be increased and made to abound more and more.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied - This is not quite the form of salutation used by the other apostles, but it is one equally expressive of an earnest desire for their welfare. These things are mentioned as the choicest blessings which could be conferred on them: “mercy” - in the pardon of all their sins and acceptance with God; “peace” - with God, with their fellow-men, in their own consciences, and in the prospect of death; and “love” - to God, to the brethren, to all the world. What blessings are there which these do not include?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jude 1:2. Mercy unto you — For even the best have no merit, and must receive every blessing and grace in the way of mercy.

Peace — With God and your consciences, love both to God and man, be multiplied-be unboundedly increased.


 
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