May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.
- KJV Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
- BSB Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
- NKJV Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
- NLT May God give you more and more mercy, peace, and love.
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Quick answer
Jude prays that God's mercy, peace, and love would be multiplied to his readers.
Overview
This greeting expands the usual New Testament blessing by adding love and asking that all three be increased abundantly. Mercy meets the believer's need for forgiveness, peace flows from reconciliation with God, and love is the relational heart of the Christian life. Coming just before stern warnings, the prayer reminds readers that contending for the faith is to be carried out by people grounded in God's mercy and love.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 2 Pet 1:2Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
- 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
- Rev 1:4–6John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
- Rom 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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