the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Jude 1:21
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keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Stay saddled up with the love of God as you wait for Jesus to come riding back over the hill to get us and take us home.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
must keep yourselves safe in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ which will result in the Life of the Ages.
Keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Iesus Christ vnto eternall life.
keep yourselves in the love of God, eagerly awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to everlasting life.
and kepe youre selues in the loue of God, lokinge for the mercy of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, vnto eternall life.
and thereby cultivate the divine favour, in the expectation of eternal life by the mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord.
and keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously and looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ [which will bring you] to eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
and kepe youre selves in the love of God lokinge for ye mercy of oure lorde Iesus Christ vnto eternall lyfe.
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;
Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the Lord Jesus Christ with his mercy to give you life forever.
maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
And keep in step with God's love, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to show how kind he is by giving you eternal life.
Thus keep yourselves in God's love, as you wait for our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to give you the mercy that leads to eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
And keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercie of our Lorde Iesus Christ, vnto eternall life.
Keep ourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ and for the life which is ours forever.
keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to eternal life.
and remain in God's love as you look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life.[xr]
ourselves in the love of Aloha to keep, while looking for the mercy of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha unto our eternal salvation.
And let us keep ourselves in the love of God, while we wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus the Messiah unto our eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God. Wait for life that lasts forever through the loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ.
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
Yourselves, in God's love, keep, - awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto age-abiding life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto life everlasting.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
And kepe your selues in the loue of God, lokyng for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christe, vnto eternall lyfe.
Keep yourselves safe in God's love, as you wait for the Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy to give you eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
and keep yourselves in the love of God, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy to give you eternal life.
and kepe you silf in the loue of God, and abide ye the merci of oure Lord Jhesu Crist in to lijf euerlastynge.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Joshua 23:11 - love 1 Kings 2:4 - That the Lord Psalms 13:5 - But Psalms 136:1 - for his mercy Proverbs 16:17 - he Proverbs 22:5 - he Isaiah 35:10 - and come Matthew 10:22 - but Matthew 19:16 - eternal Matthew 25:46 - the righteous Luke 12:36 - men Luke 16:9 - into John 4:23 - in spirit John 6:40 - and believeth John 10:28 - I give John 15:4 - Abide John 16:27 - the Father John 17:2 - give Acts 14:22 - exhorting Acts 15:29 - if ye Romans 8:26 - but Romans 11:22 - if thou 1 Corinthians 1:7 - waiting 2 Corinthians 13:14 - the love Galatians 5:1 - Stand Galatians 6:8 - of the Spirit Ephesians 5:27 - but Philippians 4:1 - so Philippians 4:6 - in Titus 1:2 - hope Hebrews 5:9 - eternal Hebrews 12:2 - Looking Hebrews 12:15 - Looking 2 Peter 3:12 - Looking 1 John 2:25 - General 1 John 5:11 - God 1 John 5:18 - keepeth
Cross-References
to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals." And that is what happened.
God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground."
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive.
With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind.
Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth."
And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair.
Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Keep yourselves in the love of God,.... By which may be meant either the grace and favour of God, that love with which God loves his people; and then the exhortation to the saints to keep themselves in it is, to set it always before them, to keep it constantly in view, to exercise faith on it, firmly believing their interest in it; as also to meditate on it, give themselves up wholly to the contemplation of it, and employ their thoughts constantly about it, which is the foundation of all grace here, and glory hereafter; or to preserve themselves by it, for so the words may be rendered, "preserve yourselves by the love of God"; against Satan's temptations, the snares of the world, and the lusts of the flesh; whenever Satan solicits to sin, and any snare is laid to draw into it, and the flesh attempts to be predominant, saints should betake themselves to the love of God, as to a strong hold and preservative against sin, and reason as Joseph did, Genesis 39:9, for the love of God, and continuance in it, do not depend on anything that can be done by men; nor is there any danger of real believers falling from it, or losing it, since it is unchangeable, and is from everlasting to everlasting; or else by the love of God we are to understand that love with which his people love him and of which he is the object,
Luke 11:42; and then the meaning of the exhortation is, that though this grace of love cannot be lost, yet, inasmuch as the fervour of it may be abated, and the people of God grow cold and indifferent in their expressions of it, it becomes them to make use of all proper means to maintain and increase it in themselves and others; such as are mentioned in the context, as conversing together in an edifying way about the doctrines of the Gospel, and praying either separately or together, under the influences of the Holy Spirit, and looking forward for the grace and mercy of Christ unto everlasting life; all which, with many other, things, by the blessing of God, may serve to maintain and revive the grace of love, and blow it up into a flame: though perhaps this phrase may chiefly design that love, peace, and concord, which ought to subsist among saints as brethren, and which they should be careful to preserve; and may be called the love of God, just as the same thing is styled the peace of God, Colossians 3:15, because it is what God requires, what he calls unto, which is of him, and is taught by him in regeneration, and what his, love engages to, and without which there is no true love to him; and he takes, love shown to his people as if shown to himself; and this sense is favoured by the context, both by the words in the preceding verse, and in the following ones:
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. The mercy of Christ may be considered either as past, which was shown in eternity, in his covenant transactions with his Father, in engaging in the cause of his people, in espousing them to himself, and in the care of their persons, grace, and glory; and in time, in assuming their nature, in his tender concern for the bodies and souls of men, in bearing the sins and sorrows of his people, in the redemption of them, and in their regeneration and calling; and there is the present mercy of Christ, in interceding for his people, in sympathizing with them under all their afflictions, in succouring them under all their temptations, in suiting himself, as the great Shepherd, to all the circumstances of his flock; and there is the future mercy of Christ, which will be shown at death, in the grave, and at the resurrection, at the day of judgment, and in the merciful sentence he will pronounce on his people; and this seems to be designed here; the consequent of which, or what is annexed to it, and in which it issues, is eternal life; which is not owing to the works of men, but to the grace of God, and mercy of Christ; eternal life is in him, and is given through him, and to his mercy should men look for it. Christ himself is to be looked for, who will certainly come a second time; and eternal life is to be looked for by him; and this is only to be expected through his grace and mercy; and this is to be looked for by faith, in the love of it, with delight and pleasure, and cheerfulness, with eagerness, and yet with patience.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Keep yourselves in the love of God - Still adverting to their own agency. On the duty here enjoined, see the notes at John 15:9. The phrase “the love of God” may mean either God’s love to us, or our love to him. The latter appears, however, to be the sense here, because it is not a subject which could be enjoined, that we should keep up “God’s love to us.” That is a point over which we can have no control, except so far as it may be the result of our obedience; but we may be commanded to love him, and to “keep” ourselves in that love.
Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ - Particularly when he shall come to receive his people to himself. See the Titus 2:13 note; 2 Peter 3:12 note; 2 Timothy 4:8 note.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jude 1:21. Keep yourselves in the love of God — By building up yourselves on your most holy faith, and praying in the Holy Ghost; for without this we shall soon lose the love of God.
Looking for the mercy of our Lord — For although they were to build themselves up, and to pray in the Holy Ghost, and keep themselves in the love of God, yet this building, praying, and keeping, cannot merit heaven; for, after all their diligence, earnestness, self-denial, watching, obedience, &c., they must look for the MERCY of the Lord Jesus Christ, to bring them to ETERNAL LIFE.
