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

2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

See on Ro 1:7 1Pe 1:2 2Pe 1:2 Re 1:4-6

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, 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.

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. See on Eph 1:1 Php 1:1 Col 1:2

4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

put. Ro 15:15 2Pe 1:12,13 3:1

having. See on 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

6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

angels. Joh 8:44

first estate. or, principality. Eph 6:12

he hath. Mt 25:41

See on 2Pe 2:4

unto. Mt 8:29 Heb 10:27 Re 20:10

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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

8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

these. Jer 38:25-28

defile. 1Co 3:17 1Ti 1:10

See on 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

9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

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

10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

speak. See on 2Pe 2:12

in those. See on Ro 1:21,22

11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

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 *etc: Nu 26:9,10

Korah.

12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

are spots. See on 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

See on 2Pe 2:18-20

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

13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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. See on 2Pe 2:17 Re 14:10,11 20:10 21:8

14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

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

15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

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

16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

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 1Pe 2:11 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

17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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

18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

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

19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

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

20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

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

21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

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

22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:

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

23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

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 15:33 2Th 3:14 Re 3:4,18

24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

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

25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

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 Tit 2:10,13 3:4 2Pe 1:1

be glory. 1Ch 29:11 Ps 72:18,19 Da 4:37

See on Mt 6:13 Eph 3:21 1Pe 4:11 5:10,11 2Pe 3:18 Re 1:6 4:9-11 5:13,14

CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLE OF JUDE

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.