'''2''' Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
<span id="3"></span>'''3''' Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common [[salvation]]<ref>[[Titus, Chapter 1|Tit 1:4]]</ref>, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort ''you'' that ye should earnestly contend for the [[faith]] which was once delivered unto the saints.
'''4''' For there are certain men crept in unawares<ref>[[Romans, Chapter 9|Rom 9:21]], [[1st Peter, Chapter 2|1 Pet 2:8]]</ref><ref>The elegant "unawares" is also used in [[Hebrews, Chapter 13|Hebrews 13:2]].</ref>, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace<ref>[[Titus, Chapter 2|Tit 2:11]], [[Hebrews, Chapter 12|Heb 12:15]]</ref> of our God into lasciviousness, and denying<ref>[[2nd Peter, Chapter 2|2 Pet 2:1]], [[1st John, Chapter 2|1 John 2:22]]</ref> the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.