Jude 1:2

1:2 May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you! ¹ 

Jude 1:23

1:23 save ²  others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy ³  on others, coupled with a fear of God, ⁴  hating even the clothes stained ⁵  by the flesh. ⁶ 

Jude 1:14

1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, ⁷  even prophesied of them, ⁸  saying, “Look! The Lord is coming ⁹  with thousands and thousands ¹⁰  of his holy ones,

[1:2]  ¹ tn Grk “may mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.”

[1:23]  ² tn Grk “and save.”

[1:23]  ³ tn Grk “and have mercy.”

[1:23]  ⁴ tn Grk “with fear.” But as this contrasts with ἀφόβως (afobw") in v. 12 (without reverence), the posture of the false teachers, it most likely refers to reverence for God.

[1:23]  ⁵ sn The imagery here suggests that the things close to the sinners are contaminated by them, presumably during the process of sinning.

[1:23]  ⁶ tn Grk “hating even the tunic spotted by the flesh.” The “flesh” in this instance could refer to the body or to the sin nature. It makes little difference in one sense: Jude is thinking primarily of sexual sins, which are borne of the sin nature and manifest themselves in inappropriate deeds done with the body. At the same time, he is not saying that the body is intrinsically bad, a view held by the opponents of Christianity. Hence, it is best to see “flesh” as referring to the sin nature here and the language as metaphorical.

[1:14]  ³ tn Grk “the seventh from Adam.”

[1:14]  ⁴ tn Grk “against them.” The dative τούτοις (toutois) is a dativus incommodi (dative of disadvantage).

[1:14]  ⁵ tn Grk “has come,” a proleptic aorist.

[1:14]  ⁶ tn Grk “ten thousands.” The word μυριάς (muria"), from which the English myriad is derived, means “ten thousand.” In the plural it means “ten thousands.” This would mean, minimally, 20,000 (a multiple of ten thousand). At the same time, the term was often used in apocalyptic literature to represent simply a rather large number, without any attempt to be specific.