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NASB | Jude 1:4 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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jude 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed [just as if they were sneaking in by a side door]. They are ungodly persons whose condemnation was predicted long ago, for they distort the grace of our God into decadence and immoral freedom [viewing it as an opportunity to do whatever they want], and deny and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. |
Subject: Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood |
Bible Note: Jeshuafreak, it's a long way from the Ozarks of Arkansas to the City of Roses, your beautiful Portland, OR, but still and all we can pick up your words quite well here, so there is no need to shout :-) (All caps is the internet equivalent of shouting). But I do agree certainly that Christianity today could get along better with less religion and more 'mere Christianity', to use a C.S.Lewis label. On a personal note, my son and his family live in Portland and my wife and I plan to fly out there, to arrive August 17, just two weeks after your wedding. --Hank |