Jude 1:4 Parallel Verses
New International Version
For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people,
who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
New Living Translation
I say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches,
saying that God's marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people was recorded long ago, for they have denied our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
English Standard Version
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people,
who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
New American Standard Bible
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation,
ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
King James Bible
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly,
turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.
International Standard Version
For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly.
They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.
NET Bible
For certain men have secretly slipped in among you--men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe--ungodly men who have
turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For men have obtained entrance, who from the beginning were written with this guilty verdict: “Evil men
who pervert the grace of our God into an abomination and deny him who is the only Lord God and our Lord Yeshua The Messiah.”
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. Not long ago they were condemned in writing for the following reason: They are people to whom God means nothing.
They use God's kindness as an excuse for sexual freedom and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jubilee Bible 2000
For there are certain men crept in unawares without fear or reverence of God, who from beforehand have been ordained unto this condemnation,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying God who alone has dominion, and our Lord Jesus, the Christ.
King James 2000 Bible
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
American King James Version
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
American Standard Version
For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men,
turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Darby Bible Translation
For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons],
turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
English Revised Version
For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old set forth unto this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Webster's Bible Translation
For certain men have crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Weymouth New Testament
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men, who
pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.
World English Bible
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men,
turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Young's Literal Translation
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious,
the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,