{{ Introduction to Jude 60-67 AD
The brother of James is the author’s identification of himself. This means that he is also a half-brother of Jesus and was the youngest or next to youngest (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3). Following the example of James, he simply refers to himself as a ‘Servant of Jesus Christ.’ He claims no special privilege because of his fleshly relationship to Jesus. False teachers needed to be rebuked, and Jude is going to address the sins of the people who thought they could sin with the body, and their physical sin had nothing to do with their spiritual well-being. This same false teaching is common in the Calvinism of today. Jude goes on to address their denial of the deity of Jesus.}}
{64 AD. Paul’s release from prison and visitation to various congregations.}{July 64 AD. The Great Fire at Rome, Christians accused of setting it.}
1:1 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to the called ones, the ones who have been made holy in God the Father and have been kept in Jesus Christ: 1:2 mercy to you°, and may peace and love* be multiplied.
1:3 Beloved, making* all diligence to write to you° concerning the common salvation of us, I had a necessity to write to you°, encouraging you° to fight earnestly for the faith which was given once for all to the holy-ones.
1:4 For* some men sneaked in among you°, the ones who have been written about, from long-ago *for this condemnation of the ungodly, the ones transferring {Or: transform} the grace of our God into unbridled-lust and denying our only Master, God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:5 But I plan to remind you°, though you° knowing this once for all, that the Lord, who saved people out-of the land of Egypt, destroyed the ones who did not believe the second-time. {Num 14:32}
1:6 And the messengers who did not keep to their own principality, but who left their own house, he has kept to the judgment of the great day in eternal bonds under blackness.
1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in a similar manner with these; they indulged in fornication and went after different flesh, and are laying before us as an example, being held under the sentence of everlasting fire. {Gen 19:1-38}
1:8 Nevertheless, these also dreaming likewise, indeed are defiling the flesh and rejecting lordship and blaspheming the heavenly glories.
1:9 But Michael the archangel, when arguing with the devil, after he was reasoning concerning the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a judgment of blasphemy against him, but said, The Lord rebuke you.
1:10 But these men, they indeed blaspheme as many things as they do not know. But as many things as they know naturally, like the unreasoning creatures that they are, they corrupt themselves in these things.
1:11 Woe to them! Because they traveled in the way of Cain and poured themselves into the error of Balaam’s reward and perished in the contradiction of Korah. {Gen 4:8; Num 22:1-41; Num 16:1-50}
1:12 These people are hidden-reefs in your° love-feasts, sumptuously feasting fearlessly alongside you°, shepherding themselves, they are waterless clouds, being carried away by the winds, unfruitful autumn trees, died twice, uprooted, 1:13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames, misleading stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been kept forever.
1:14 Now Enoch, seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these people, saying, Behold, the Lord came with tens of thousands of his holy-ones, 1:15 to make* a judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them, concerning all their works of ungodliness of which they did in ungodly ways and concerning all the harsh things which ungodly sinners spoke against him.
1:16 These men are murmurers, complainers, conducting-themselves according-to their lusts and their mouth is speaking flattering-words, admiring faces {Hebrew idiom: complimenting the person.} because of profit.
1:17 But you°, beloved, remember° for yourselves the declarations which have been spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1:18 that they were saying to you°, In the last time there will be mockers, conducting-themselves according-to their own lusts of ungodlinesses. 1:19 These are the ones who are causing-splits, who are physical, not having the Spirit. 1:20 But you°, beloved, keep building yourselves up in your° most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
1:21 Keep° yourselves in God’s love*, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ *for everlasting life. 1:22 And show-mercy° on some, making a distinction, 1:23 but save° those who are in fear, seizing them out-of the fire, hating even the tunic which has been stained from the flesh.
1:24 Now to the one who is able to guard them from falling and to stand them in the sight of his glory, unblemished in gladness, 1:25 to the only wise God our Savior, is the glory and majesty, dominion and authority, both now and all of forever. Amen.
{NOTES: Please read the Preface and other non-bible sections. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the ‘Definitions’ section. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e., *FOR is different from FOR* is different from FOR. ° (degree sign) denotes plural forms.}