Jude 1:21

Believers are to keep themselves in God's love while awaiting the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Jn 4:16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
• Lam 3:25–26Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
• Heb 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
• 2 Pet 3:12looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
• John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
• Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
• Titus 2:13–14looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• John 14:21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 8:39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 2 Tim 1:2to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 1 Jn 5:10–11He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
• 1 Jn 3:16–17By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• 2 Tim 4:8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
• Luke 12:36–40Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.
• Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
• 2 Tim 1:18(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
• Matt 24:42–51Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• 1 Jn 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
• Rom 5:5and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
• 1 Tim 1:2to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 2 Tim 1:16May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

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