Jude 1:4 Cross References
Jude 1:4
4: I say this because some godless people have wormed their way in among you, saying that God's forgiveness allows us to live immoral lives. The fate of such people was determined long ago, for they have turned against our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Galatians 2:4
- Even that question wouldn't have come up except for some so-called Christians there--false ones, really--who came to spy on us and see our freedom in Christ Jesus. They wanted to force us, like slaves, to follow their Jewish regulations.
2 Peter 2:1
- But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach their destructive heresies about God and even turn against their Master who bought them. Theirs will be a swift and terrible end.
- Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of them, Christ and his true way will be slandered.
- In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money. But God condemned them long ago, and their destruction is on the way.
2 Peter 2:10
- He is especially hard on those who follow their own evil, lustful desires and who despise authority. These people are proud and arrogant, daring even to scoff at the glorious ones without so much as trembling.
1 John 2:22
- And who is the great liar? The one who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Such people are antichrists, for they have denied the Father and the Son.
1 Peter 2:8
- And the Scriptures also say, "He is the stone that makes people stumble, the rock that will make them fall." They stumble because they do not listen to God's word or obey it, and so they meet the fate that has been planned for them.
Titus 1:15
- Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are defiled.
- Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live. They are despicable and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good.
2 Timothy 3:6
- They are the kind who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by many desires.
2 Peter 2:18
- They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With lustful desire as their bait, they lure back into sin those who have just escaped from such wicked living.
- They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves to sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.
- And when people escape from the wicked ways of the world by learning about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up with sin and become its slave again, they are worse off than before.
- It would be better if they had never known the right way to live than to know it and then reject the holy commandments that were given to them.
- They make these proverbs come true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A washed pig returns to the mud."
1 Peter 2:16
- You are not slaves; you are free. But your freedom is not an excuse to do evil. You are free to live as God's slaves.
Titus 2:11
- For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people.
- And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with self-control, right conduct, and devotion to God,
Galatians 5:13
- For you have been called to live in freedom--not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love.
2 Peter 2:5
- And God did not spare the ancient world--except for Noah and his family of seven. Noah warned the world of God's righteous judgment. Then God destroyed the whole world of ungodly people with a vast flood.
- Later, he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into heaps of ashes and swept them off the face of the earth. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.
Romans 6:1
- Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more kindness and forgiveness?
- Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
2 Peter 3:7
- And God has also commanded that the heavens and the earth will be consumed by fire on the day of judgment, when ungodly people will perish.
Hebrews 12:15
- Look after each other so that none of you will miss out on the special favor of God. Watch out that no bitter root of unbelief rises up among you, for whenever it springs up, many are corrupted by its poison.
- Make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau. He traded his birthright as the oldest son for a single meal.
Psalms 1:1
- Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with scoffers.
2 Samuel 22:5
- "The waves of death surrounded me; the floods of destruction swept over me.
1 Timothy 6:15
- For at the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only almighty God, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
- He alone can never die, and he lives in light so brilliant that no human can approach him. No one has ever seen him, nor ever will. To him be honor and power forever. Amen.
John 17:3
- And this is the way to have eternal life--to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.
Acts 11:23
- When he arrived and saw this proof of God's favor, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord.
Matthew 13:25
- But that night as everyone slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat.
Romans 9:21
- When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn't he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?
- God has every right to exercise his judgment and his power, but he also has the right to be very patient with those who are the objects of his judgment and are fit only for destruction.
1 Peter 4:18
- And "If the righteous are barely saved, what chance will the godless and sinners have?"
Psalms 62:2
- He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will never be shaken.
Ephesians 4:14
- Then we will no longer be like children, forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or because someone has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth.
Jude 1:15
- He will bring the people of the world to judgment. He will convict the ungodly of all the evil things they have done in rebellion and of all the insults that godless sinners have spoken against him."
Acts 15:24
- "We understand that some men from here have troubled you and upset you with their teaching, but they had no such instructions from us.
Revelation 15:4
- Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous deeds have been revealed."