But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
Parallel translations
- WEB But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
- KJV But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
- NKJV But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
- NASB But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
- NLT But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit,
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Quick answer
In contrast, believers are to build themselves up in their most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.
Overview
Jude now gives positive instruction for perseverance. Believers grow by being established in the apostolic faith and by praying in dependence on the Holy Spirit, the very Spirit the false teachers lack. This active, Spirit-empowered devotion is the antidote to the corrupting influence Jude has described and the means of remaining faithful.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 27
- Eph 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
- Rom 8:26–27In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
- 1 Cor 14:15What then shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.
- Col 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- 1 Th 5:11Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
- 1 Cor 14:4–5The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.
- Rom 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- Acts 9:31Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
- Gal 4:6And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
- 1 Cor 14:26What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. All of these must be done to build up the church.
- Eph 4:29Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- Eph 4:16From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
- Jas 2:22You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.
- 1 Jn 5:4because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
- Eph 4:12to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,
- Titus 1:1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
- Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- 1 Cor 10:23“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
- Rom 15:2Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
- Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
- 1 Cor 1:8He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Rev 13:10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
- Jude 1:3Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.
- 1 Tim 1:4or devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by faith.
- 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
- 2 Tim 1:5I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.
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