Study it in the app“For certain men have slipped in, who long ago were written about beforehand for this judgment, ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.”
Forγάρcertainτινεςmenἄνθρωποιhave slipped in,παρεισέδυσανwhoοἱlong agoπάλαιwere written about beforehandπρογεγραμμένοιforεἰςthisτοῦτοjudgment,τὸ κρίμαungodly menἀσεβεῖςwho turnμετατιθέντεςthe graceτὴν χάριταof ourτοῦ ἡμῶνGodθεοῦintoεἰςdebaucheryἀσέλγειανandκαὶdenyἀρνούμενοιourτὸν ἡμῶνonlyμόνονSovereignδεσπότηνandκαὶLord,κύριονJesusἸησοῦνthe Messiah.Χριστὸν
person
A person, man or woman.
Where else “anthrōpoi” appearsslip in
Slip in secretly, sneak in.
Where else “pareisedysan” appearslong ago
Long ago, for a long time.
Where else “palai” appearswrite beforehand
To set something down ahead of time.
Where else “progegrammenoi” appearscondemnation
The sentence that declares someone guilty, and the penalty they receive.
Where else “krima” appearsungodly
Ungodly: someone who has no reverence for God.
Where else “asebeis” appearschange
Alter; make one thing into another; go over to another side.
Where else “metatithentes” appearsgrace
A kindness God gives that no one earns, above all salvation.
Where else “charita” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theou” appearsdebauchery
Unrestrained immorality, debauchery.
Where else “aselgeian” appearsdisown
To claim you do not know someone, turn your back on them.
Where else “arnoumenoi” appearsonly
Nothing beyond that: bread is not enough to live.
Where else “monon” appearsSovereign
God or the Messiah, who rules over all.
Where else “despotēn” appearsLord
The Lord: God, whose name is YHWH; also Jesus.
Where else “kyrion” appearsJesus
Jesus, the Greek form of the Hebrew Yehoshua (Joshua), which means "YHWH saves". It is the name the angel told Joseph to give him (Matthew 1:21).
Where else “Iēsoun” appearsMessiah
Messiah: literally "anointed", the king or envoy God consecrates with oil. It is a title, not a surname; in Hebrew, mashiach.
Where else “Christon” appears“Sovereign and Lord”: by the Greek grammar, the two titles probably both refer to Jesus.
3Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you, urging you to contend for the faith once for all handed down to the saints.
4 · This verse (above)
5But I want to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
