Contend for the faith — one urgent page, and the Bible's most soaring benediction.
"Keep yourselves in the ______ of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."
Jude, like James, was most likely a half-brother of Jesus — yet he introduces himself only as 'the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James.' Humility runs in the family.
Jude meant to write a friendly letter about salvation — and tells us he changed plans mid-thought, because the faith needed defending. The Bible's most famous pivot.
Verses 24 and 25 — 'now unto him that is able to keep you from falling' — form perhaps the most beloved benediction in Scripture, still closing services every Sunday.
Nearly every verse in Jude has a twin in 2 Peter 2 — two writers, one warning, delivered in stereo.