Jude 1:2 (DRB)

Passage

Mercy unto you and peace: and charity be fulfilled.

Nearby Context

Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.

Jude 1:2 Mercy unto you and peace: and charity be fulfilled.

Jude 1:3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

Jude 1:4 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.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "mercy", "peace", "charity", and "fulfilled". 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 the servant of Jesus Christ and..." into verse 3's "Dearly beloved taking all care to write...", 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.