Jude 1:23
Good News Translation
save others by snatching them out of the fire; and to others show mercy mixed with fear, but hate their very clothes, stained by their sinful lusts.

New Revised Standard Version
save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.

Contemporary English Version
Rescue any who need to be saved, as you would rescue someone from a fire. Then with fear in your own hearts, have mercy on everyone who needs it. But hate even the clothes of those who have been made dirty by their filthy deeds.

New American Bible
save others by snatching them out of the fire; on others have mercy with fear, abhorring even the outer garment stained by the flesh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.

save.

Romans 11:14 If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

1 Corinthians 5:3-5 I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, . . .

2 Corinthians 7:10-12 For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. . . .

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

pulling.

Amos 4:11 I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 3:2 And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the Lord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

1 Corinthians 3:15 If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

hating.

Leviticus 13:47-59 A woollen or linen garment that shall have the leprosy . . .

Leviticus 14:47 And he that sleepeth in it, and eateth any thing, shall wash his clothes.

Leviticus 15:17 The garment or skin that he weareth, he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Lamentations 4:14 Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were defiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it, they held up their skirts.

Zechariah 3:3-5 And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the face of the angel. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

2 Thessalonians 3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Revelation 3:4,18 But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. . . .

Context
A Call to Persevere
22And some indeed reprove, being judged: 23But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal. 24Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:…
Cross References
Amos 4:11
I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 3:2
And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the Lord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

Zechariah 3:3
And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments: and he stood before the face of the angel.

1 Corinthians 3:15
If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

2 Corinthians 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we use persuasion to men: but to God we are manifest. And I trust also that in your consciences we are manifest.

2 John 1:11
For he that saith unto him: God speed you, communicateth with his wicked works.

Jude 1:22
And some indeed reprove, being judged:

Revelation 3:4
But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

Jude 1:22
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