Father with all the love with which He loves His Son. The perfect tense speaks here of the fact that the saints are the permanent objects of God’s love. Jude is therefore writing to those who have been loved by God the Father with the present result that they are in a state of being the objects of His permanent love, and that love extends not merely through the brief span of this life, but throughout eternity. And then some dear children of God fear that they might be lost. “Preserved” is tēreō