Jude 1:3 (YLT)

Passage

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

Nearby Context

Jude 1:1 Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept--called,

Jude 1:2 kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!

Jude 1:3 Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

Jude 1:4 for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,

Jude 1:5 and to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "beloved", "diligence", "using", "write", "concerning", "common", and "salvation". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "beloved", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "kindness to you and peace and love..." into verse 4's "for there did come in unobserved certain...", so "faith" and "beloved" 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 "faith" and "beloved" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.