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Bible Verses About Jude And Apostolic Teaching

Early Christian writers clearly treated Jude as an apostolic book and used it to warn Christians to hold to the faith once given. Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Caius, and the Apostolic Constitutions all quote or list Jude as Scripture or as a Catholic Epistle, while Tertullian and Irenaeus stress that true teaching must match what the apostles handed down. The strongest direct teaching about Jude itself is on apostolic authority, sound doctrine, and resisting false teachers.

The evidence is thinner for anything beyond that, and some nearby cards only talk about apostolic tradition in general rather than Jude in particular. Because there are several early witnesses for Jude’s authority but only limited direct discussion of Jude’s content, the page should stay narrow and source-led.

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Foundation Texts

Jude 1:3 primary

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.

Direct Bible text on the faith once delivered

For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Direct Jude warning about false men who twist grace

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Direct passage about keeping in God's love and awaiting mercy

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Direct passage about building up the faith and praying in the Holy Spirit

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

Direct Jude warning about defilement and rejection of authority

Supporting Passages

But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Jude tells readers to remember apostolic predictions

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

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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.

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I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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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;

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Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

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And of some have compassion, making a difference:

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Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

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And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

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Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

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Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

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Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

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