Tyndale Open Study Notes on Jude 1:3

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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1:3 The tribe of Simeon virtually disappeared within the land assigned to Judah (Josh 19:1). • fight against the Canaanites . . . help you conquer: See Josh 16:10; 17:13; 23:4-13. 1:3-4 In place of the thanksgiving that usually comes at this point in a New Testament letter (see Rom 1:8-14; 1 Cor 1:4-9), Jude explains his central purpose. False teaching was a potent danger to the faith of his readers (see Jude 1:22-23). 1:3 In the New Testament, “faith” usually refers to the act of believing, while the faith refers to the content of Christian belief.

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