Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.
kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!
Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.
Jude — Jude writes urgently — he meant to write of salvation generally, but finds he must write to ‘earnestly contend for the faith.’ A brief polemic with echoes of 1 Enoch and a doxology that closes the whole.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices4
He desires that mercy, peace, and love be multiplied unto them; "mercy" because we are called by God and received as His servants through the compassion of mercy; "peace" because God the Father Himself also granted it to us, having reconciled us, who had offended …
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on Jude, 1107patristic
Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
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.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
Mercy--in a time of wretchedness. Therefore mercy stands first; the mercy of Christ (Jude 21). peace--in the Holy Ghost (Jude 20). love--of God (Jude 21).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
The verses this one reaches6
Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne,
To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then King Darius wrote to the people of every nation and language throughout the land: “May your prosperity abound.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Peter 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
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But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by…
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
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2 Peter 1:2Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
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Romans 1:7To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
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