Jude 1:5
“I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.”
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Read Full Chapter →Jude offers his first reminder from history: the Lord saved Israel from Egypt, yet afterward destroyed those among them who refused to believe.
What Does Jude 1:5 Mean?
Jude turns to a story his readers already knew. The Lord rescued a whole people out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Yet of that delivered generation, those who refused to trust him did not enter the promised rest. Jude recalls it not to frighten but to instruct: deliverance once received is not the same as faith that endures.
The lesson is sobering and clarifying. Belonging to the rescued community is a gift, but it calls for a heart that keeps trusting God. The people who fell did so through unbelief. Jude is showing his readers that the intruders' confidence means nothing if their lives deny the Lord. For everyone who reads, the call is to hold fast in faith to the God who saves, and to keep trusting the One who has already proved faithful.