Jude

1 He exhorts them to be constant in the profession of the faith.

4 False teachers are crept in to seduce them, for whose evil doctrine and manners horrible punishment is prepared;

20 whereas the godly, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, and prayers to God, may persevere, and grow in grace, and keep themselves, and recover others out of the snares of those deceivers.

A. D. 66. A. M. 4070.

Jude.

Mt 10:3

Lebbeus, Thaddeus.

Mr 3:18

Thaddeus.

Lu 6:16; Joh 14:22; Ac 1:13

the servant.

Joh 12:26; Ac 27:23; Ro 1:1; 6:22; 16:18; Jas 1:1; 2Pe 1:1

them.

Joh 15:16; 17:17,19; Ac 20:32; 1Co 1:2; 6:11; Eph 5:26; 1Th 5:23

1Pe 1:2

preserved.

Joh 6:39; 10:28-30; 17:11,12,15; 2Ti 4:18; 1Pe 1:5

and called.

Ro 8:30; 9:24; 1Th 2:12; 2Th 2:13,14; 2Ti 1:9; Heb 3:1; 1Pe 2:9; 5:10

Ro 1:7; 1Pe 1:2; 2Pe 1:2; Re 1:4-6

when.

Ro 15:15,16; Ga 6:11; Heb 13:22; 1Pe 5:12; 2Pe 1:12-15; 3:1

common.

Isa 45:17,22; Ac 4:12; 13:46,47; 28:28; Ga 3:28; Tit 1:4; 2Pe 1:1

that ye.

Ne 13:25; Jer 9:3; Ac 6:8-10; 9:22; 17:3; 18:4-6,28; Php 1:27

1Th 2:2; 1Ti 1:18; 6:12; 2Ti 1:13; 4:7,8; Re 2:10; 12:11

which.

De 9:10; 21:9; Ac 20:27; 1Co 15:3; Ga 2:5; 2Pe 3:2

the saints.

Eph 1:1; Php 1:1; Col 1:2

crept.

Mt 13:25; Ac 15:24; Ga 2:4; Eph 4:14; 2Ti 3:6; 2Pe 2:1,2

who.

Ro 9:21,22; 1Pe 2:8; 2Pe 2:3

ungodly.

15; 2Sa 22:5; Ps 1:1; 1Pe 4:18; 2Pe 2:5,6; 3:7

turning.

Ro 6:1,2; Ga 5:13; Tit 2:11,12; Heb 12:15,16; 1Pe 2:16

2Pe 2:10,18-22

denying.

Tit 1:15,16; 2Pe 2:1; 1Jo 2:22

only.

Ps 62:2; Joh 17:3; 1Ti 6:15,16; Re 15:4

put.

Ro 15:15; 2Pe 1:12,13; 3:1

having.

1Co 10:1-12

afterward.

Nu 14:22-37; 26:64,65; De 2:15,16; Ps 106:26; Heb 3:16-19; 4:1,2

angels.

Joh 8:44

first estate. or, principality.

Eph 6:12

he hath.

Mt 25:41; 2Pe 2:4

unto.

Mt 8:29; Heb 10:27; Re 20:10

as.

Ge 13:13; 18:20; 19:24-26; De 29:23; Isa 1:9; 13:19; Jer 20:16

Jer 50:40; La 4:6; Eze 16:49,50; Ho 11:8; Am 4:11; Lu 17:29

strange. Gr. other.

Ge 19:5; Ro 1:26,27; 1Co 6:9

are.

Mt 11:24; 2Pe 2:6

eternal.

De 29:23; Isa 33:14; Mt 25:41; Mr 9:43-49

these.

Jer 38:25-28

defile.

1Co 3:17; 1Ti 1:10; 2Pe 2:10-12

despise.

Ge 3:5; Nu 16:3,12,13, 1Sa 10:27; Ps 2:1-6; 12:3-4; Lu 19:14

Ac 7:27,39; 1Th 4:8; Heb 13:17

speak.

9,10; Ex 22:28; Pr 30:11,17; Ec 10:20; Ac 23:5; 1Pe 2:17

Michael.It is most probable, that the Apostle took this account concerning Michael, and that of the prophesying of Enoch, from an ancient tradition preserved and well known among the Jews.

Da 10:13,21; 12:1; Re 12:7

archangel.

1Th 4:16

the body.

De 34:6

durst.

Ex 22:28; Isa 36:13-21; Mr 15:29; Lu 23:39,40; 1Pe 3:9; 2Pe 2:11

The Lord.

1Ch 12:17; Isa 37:3,4,10-20; Zec 3:2

speak.

2Pe 2:12

in those.

Ro 1:21,22

Woe.

Isa 3:9,11; Jer 13:27; Eze 13:3; Zec 11:17; Mt 11:21; 23:13-16

Lu 11:42-47

for.

Ge 4:5-14; 1Jo 3:12

ran.

Nu 22:1-24:25; 31:16; De 23:4; Jos 24:9-11; Mic 6:5; 2Pe 2:15

Re 2:14

perished.

Nu 16:1-35; 26:9,10

Korah.

are spots.

2Pe 2:13,14

feasts.

1Co 11:21,22

feeding.

Ps 78:29-31; Isa 56:10-12; Eze 34:8,18; Lu 12:19,20,45; 16:19

Lu 21:34; Php 3:19; 1Th 5:6,7; Jas 5:5

clouds.

Pr 25:14; Ho 6:4; 2Pe 2:17

carried.

Eph 4:14

trees.

Ps 1:3; 37:2; Mt 13:6; 21:19,20; Mr 4:6; 11:21; Lu 8:6; Joh 15:4-6

twice.

1Ti 5:6; Heb 6:4-8; 2Pe 2:18-20

plucked.

2Ch 7:20; Eze 17:9; Mt 15:13; Mr 11:20

Raging.

Ps 65:7; 93:3,4; Isa 57:20; Jer 5:22,23

foaming.

Php 3:19; 2Ti 3:13

wandering.

Re 8:10,11

to whom.

2Pe 2:17; Re 14:10,11; 20:10; 21:8

Enoch.

Ge 5:18,24; 1Ch 1:1-3; Heb 11:5,6

Behold.

De 33:2; Job 19:25-27; Ps 50:3-5; Da 7:9,10; Zec 14:5; Mt 16:27

Mt 24:30,31; 25:31; 1Th 3:13; 2Th 1:7,8; Re 1:7

execute.

Ps 9:7,8; 37:6; 50:1-6; 98:9; 149:9; Ec 11:9; 12:14; Joh 5:22,23,27

Ac 17:31; Ro 2:16; 14:10; 1Co 4:5; 5:13; Re 22:12-15,20

convince.

Ro 2:5; 3:19,20

and of all.

16; Ex 16:8; 1Sa 2:3; Ps 31:18; 73:9; 94:4; Isa 37:22-36; Da 7:20

Da 11:36; Mal 3:13-15; Mt 12:31-37; Re 13:5,6,11

murmurers.

Nu 14:36; 16:11; De 1:27; Ps 106:25; Isa 29:24; Lu 5:30; 15:2; 19:7

Joh 6:41,61; 1Co 10:10; Php 2:14

walking.

18; Ga 5:16,24; 1Th 4:5; 2Ti 4:3; Jas 1:14,15; 1Pe 1:14; 2:11

1Pe 4:2; 2Pe 2:10; 3:3

their mouth.

15; Job 17:4,5; Ps 17:10; 73:9-11; 2Pe 2:18

having.

Le 19:15; Job 32:21; 34:19; Ps 15:4; Pr 28:21; 1Ti 6:5; Jas 2:1-9

2Pe 2:1-3

remember.

Mal 4:4; Ac 20:35; Eph 2:20; 4:11; 2Pe 3:2; 1Jo 4:6

there.

Ac 20:29; 1Ti 4:1,2; 2Ti 3:1-5,13; 4:3; 2Pe 2:1; 3:3

who.

16; Ps 14:1,2

who.

Pr 18:1; Isa 65:5; Eze 14:7; Ho 4:14; 9:10; Heb 10:25

sensual.

1Co 2:14; Jas 3:15

Gr. having.

Joh 3:5,6; Ro 8:9; 1Co 6:19

building.

Ac 9:31; Ro 15:2; 1Co 1:8; 10:23; 14:4,5,26; Eph 4:12,16,29; Col 2:7

1Th 5:11; 1Ti 1:4

Gr. most.

Ac 15:9; 26:18; 2Ti 1:5; Tit 1:1; Jas 2:22; 2Pe 1:1; 1Jo 5:4

Re 13:10

praying.

Zec 12:10; Ro 8:15,26,27; 1Co 14:15; Ga 4:6; Eph 6:18

Keep.

24; Joh 14:21; 15:9,10; Ac 11:23; 1Jo 4:16; 5:18,21; Re 12:11

in.

Ro 5:5; 8:39; 2Th 3:5; 1Jo 3:16,17

looking.

Job 14:14; La 3:25,26; Mt 24:42-51; Lu 12:36-40; 2Ti 4:8

Tit 2:13,14; Heb 9:28; 2Pe 3:12

the mercy.

Joh 1:17; 1Ti 1:2; 2Ti 1:2,16,18

unto.

Ro 5:21; 6:23; 1Jo 5:10,11

4-13; Eze 34:17; Ga 4:20; 6:1; Heb 6:4-8; Jas 5:19,20; 1Jo 5:16-18

save.

Ro 11:14; 1Co 5:3-5; 2Co 7:10-12; 1Ti 4:16

pulling.

Am 4:11; Zec 3:2; 1Co 3:15

hating.

Le 13:47-59; 14:47; 15:17; Isa 64:6; La 4:14; Zec 3:3-5; 1Co 5:9-11

1Co 15:33; 2Th 3:14; Re 3:4,18

able.

21; Joh 10:29,30; Ro 8:31; 14:4; 16:25-27; Eph 3:20; 2Ti 4:18

present.

2Co 4:14; 11:2; Eph 5:27; Col 1:22,28; 3:4; Heb 13:20,21

faultless.

Re 14:5

the presence.

Mt 16:27; 19:28; 25:31; Lu 9:26; 1Th 4:16,17; 1Pe 4:13

exceeding.

Ps 21:6; 43:4; Mt 5:12; 2Co 4:17; 1Pe 4:13

the only.

Ps 104:24; 147:5; Ro 11:33; 16:27; Eph 1:8; 3:10; 1Ti 1:17

God.

Ps 78:20; Isa 12:2; 45:21; Joh 4:22; 1Ti 2:3; Tit 1:3,4; 2:10,13

Tit 3:4; 2Pe 1:1

be glory.

1Ch 29:11; Ps 72:18,19; Da 4:37; Mt 6:13; Eph 3:21; 1Pe 4:11

1Pe 5:10,11; 2Pe 3:18; Re 1:6; 4:9-11; 5:13,14 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE OF JUDE. St. Jude, says Origen, has written an Epistle in a few lines indeed, but full of vigorous expressions of heavenly grace.--[Ioudas men egrapsen epistolen oligostichon men pepleromenen de ouraniou charitos erromenon logon.] He briefly and forcibly represents the detestable doctrines and practices of certain false teachers, generally supposed to be the impure Gnostics, Nicolaitans and followers of Simon Magus; and reproves these profligate perverters of sound principles, and patrons of lewdness, with a holy indignation and just severity; while at the same time he exhorts all sound Christians, with genuine apostolic charity, to have tender compassion on these deluded wretches, and to endeavour vigorously to reclaim them from the ways of hell, and pluck them as brands out of the fire. There is a great similarity in sentiment and style between this Epistle and the second chapter of the second Epistle of Peter. Both writers are nearly alike in vehemence and holy indignation against impudence and lewdness, and against those who insidiously undermine chastity, purity, and sound principles.