Jude 1:2 (DBY)

Passage

Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.

Nearby Context

Jude 1:1 Jude, bondman of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the called ones beloved in God [the] Father and preserved in Jesus Christ:

Jude 1:2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love be multiplied.

Jude 1:3 Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting [you] to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

Jude 1:4 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.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "mercy", "peace", "love", and "multiplied". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "mercy" and "peace", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Jude bondman of Jesus Christ and brother..." into verse 3's "Beloved using all diligence to write to...", so "mercy" and "peace" belong inside that flow. In Jude context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "mercy" and "peace" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.