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But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
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Faith is an Active Project
Commentators explain that "building up yourselves on your most holy faith" is a continuous, active process. Faith is not a one-time event but a foundation upon which believers must constantly build. This spiritual construction project, grounded in the core truths of the gospel, is the believer's direct contrast to the destructive influence of false teachers.
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Jude
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith. Comp. See Barnes "Jude 1:3".
On the word b…
Building up (εποικοδομουντες). Present active participle of εποικοδομεω, old compound with metaphor of a house (οικος), common in …
19th Century
Anglican
An exhortation to strengthen yourselves in the faith by prayer, godliness, and hope.
(20) But you, beloved. This i…
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Baptist
But you beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the…
The repetition (cf. v.17) of “dear friends” (lit., “beloved”; GK 28) personalizes the message and redirects attention back from his opponents to th…
16th Century
Protestant
But ye, beloved. He shows the way they could overcome all the devices of Satan: that is, by having love connected with faith and by standi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But you, beloved (See Gill on Jude 1:17);
building up yourselves on your most holy faith ; some copi…
Sensual men separate from Christ and His church, and join themselves to the devil, the world, and the flesh, by ungodly and sinful practices. That …
