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Jude 1:8-10 KJV
Jude · chapter 1 · verses 8–10
8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9Yet 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. 10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.Jude 1:8-10 · King James Version
Jude 1:8-10 in context
6And 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.
7Even 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.
8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9Yet 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.
10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11Woe 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.
12These 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;
Commentary
Cross references
- Hebrews 13:17
- Zechariah 3:2
- 2 Peter 2:11
- Deuteronomy 34:6
- Revelation 12:7
- Daniel 12:1
- Daniel 10:21
- Daniel 10:13
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16
- 2 Peter 2:12
Key words (Strong's)
- contendingdiakrinōto separate, make a distinction, discriminate, to prefer, to learn by discrimination, to…G1252 →
- archangelarchangelosarchangel, or chief of the angelsG743 →
- naturallyphysikōsin a natural manner, by nature, under the guidance of nature by the aid of the bodily…G5447 →
- Likewisehomoiōslikewise, equally, in the same wayG3668 →
- Likewisementoibut yet, nevertheless, howbeitG3305 →
- dreamersenypniazomaito dream dreams, metaph., to be beguiled with sensual images and carried away to an…G1797 →
- dominionkyriotēsdominion, power, lordship, in the NT one who possesses dominionG2963 →
- disputeddialegomaito think different things with one s self, mingle thought with thought, to ponder…G1256 →
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The apostle here exhibits a charge against deceivers who were now seducing the disciples of Christ from the profession and practice of his holy religion. He calls them filthy dreamers, forasmuch as delusion is a dream, and the beginning of, and inlet to, all manner of filthiness. Note, Sin is filthiness;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-15