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Jude 1:20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Verse Jude 1:20. _BUILDING UP YOURSELVES_] Having the most _holy_ _faith-the Gospel of our Lord Jesus_, and the _writings_ of his _apostles_, for your foundation; founding all your expectations on the...
BUT YE, BELOVED, BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH - Compare the notes at Jude 1:3. On the word “building,” see the 1 Corinthians 3:9 notes; Ephesians 2:20 note. It is said here that th
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE INTRODUCTION Jude 1:1 Jude in his brief introduction speaks of the Christian believers, whom he addresses, as called ones, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved...
These false brethren make divisions among you, but do you build up yourselves by means of your most holy faith. As regards them, show mercy towards those who are in doubt; save others, snatching them...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
But you, beloved, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith; you must pray in the Holy Spirit; you must keep yourselves in the love of God; while you wait for the mercy of our...
BUILDING UP. See Acts 20:32. FAITH App-150.; i.e. the object of faith Compare 1 Corinthians 3:11. PRAYING. App-134. HOLY GHOST. holy spirit. App-101....
_building up yourselves on your most holy faith_ Both the adjective, which is nowhere used of faith in its subjective sense, and St Jude's use of the substantive in Jude 1:3, lead us to take "faith" i...
ἘΠΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ … ΠΊΣΤΕΙ. Polycarp’s letter to the Philippians (iii. 2) seems to contain a reminiscence of this (Bigg and Mayor). “If you study the epistles of the blessed Apostle Paul, δυνηθήσεσθε ο...
ΈΠΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΟΎΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΠΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΈΩ (G2026) строить, воздвигать. Part, может обозначать средство или образ действия по отношению к соблюдению себя, выражает одновременность, ΆΓΙΩΤΆΤΗ _...
BUT YE, BELOVED, &C.— The false teachers corrupted the faith, _turned the grace of God into lasciviousness,_ and would have made parties, tearing in pieces the church of God. The Christians, therefore...
_A BELIEVER WHO GUARDS HIMSELF BY BUILDING UP A GROWING FAITH_ Jude 1:20-23 _Text_ 20. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21. keep yours...
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Resuming . BUILDING UP YOURSELVES - opposite to "separate themselves" (); as "in the Holy Spirit" is op...
VERSE 20. BUT YE, BELOVED, BUILDING UP. The apostle now turns to the brethren in earnest exhortation: You are built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ; you are a part of his spiritual edifice, the te...
FIGHT FOR THE *FAITH! JUDE _HILDA BRIGHT_ WHAT THIS LETTER IS ABOUT Jude wrote the letter to warn his readers against false teachers. These teachers claimed to be Christians. But they were being...
Jude’s readers are his ‘*dear friends’. The *Greek word means ‘those people whom God loves’. All true believers share the same *spiritual relationship with God. • The Bible meaning of ‘holy’ is ‘set...
(20, 21) Exhortation to strengthen themselves in the faith by prayer, godliness, and hope. (20) BUT YE, BELOVED. — Exactly as in Jude 1:17 : “ye” in emphatic contrast to these sensuous and unspiritual...
CHAPTER 37 THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO KORAH; MAKING SEPARATIONS-EXHORTATION TO THE FAITHFUL TO BUILD UP THEMSELVES, AND THEN RESCUE OTHERS. Jude 1:19. FOR the third and last time St. Jude poi...
_The Final Charge to the Faithful_. Use all diligence to escape this danger. Make the most of the privileges vouchsafed to you. Build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith by prayer...
ὑμεῖς δὲ, ἀγαπητοί. Contrasted with the libertines, as in Jude 1:17. ἐποικοδομοῦντες ἐαυτοὺς τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ ὑμῶν πίστει. For the spiritual temple, _cf._ 1 Peter 2:3-5; Colossians 1:23;...
BEWARE OF THE TOUCH OF THE UNGODLY Jude 1:12 What traps and pitfalls beset us! How many have fallen who had as good or a better chance than we! The angels kept not their first estate; Adam, though cr...
THE BELIEVER AND THE FAITH In contrast to the ungodly, the faithful were to build upon their faith and pray in the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26; Ephesians 6:18). The idea of building on the f...
_Building yourselves. That is, raising by your actions a spiritual building, founded 1. upon faith; 2. on the love of God; 3. upon hope, whilst you are awaiting for the mercies of God, and the reward...
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. The Apostle here enters upon the subject of the Church, in pointing out her safety in Christ, amids...
CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chapt...
20._But ye, beloved_. He shews the manner in which they could overcome all the devices of Satan, that is, by having love connected with faith, and by standing on their guard as it were in their watch-...
The Epistle of Jude develops the history of the apostasy of Christendom, from the earliest elements that crept into the assembly to corrupt it, down to its judgment at the appearing of our Lord, but a...
BUT YE, BELOVED,.... Judges 1:17; BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH; some copies, and the Complutensian edition, read, "our most holy faith"; meaning the doctrine of faith in all its bra...
_But ye, beloved_ Not separating yourselves from your Christian brethren, but _building up_ Or edifying one another in knowledge and grace; _on_, or _in, your most holy faith_ The true Christian faith...
17-23 Sensual men separate from Christ, and his church, and join themselves to the devil, the world, and the flesh, by ungodly and sinful practices. That is infinitely worse than to separate from any...
_Building up yourselves; _ he compares them to a house, which is to be built up, whereof faith is the foundation: the same metaphor is used, 1 CORINTHIANS 4:9 EPHESIANS 2:20 1 PETER 2:5. _Most holy; _...
Jude 1:20 But G1161 you G5210 beloved G27 building G2026 yourselves G1438 up G2026 (G5723) your G5216 holy...
‘But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.' Ju...
HAVING EXPOSED THE UNGODLY JUDE NOW TURNS TO THE GODLY AND SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE THEM AND GIVE THEM GUIDANCE (JUDE 1:17). He first reminds God's true people that what is happening is in full accord with...
Jude 1:20-21. BUT YE (strongly emphatic), BELOVED, as against those dividers of the Church who are pulling it down stone by stone, EVER BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN THE H...
BUILDING UP (εποικοδομουντες). Present active participle of εποικοδομεω, old compound with metaphor of a house (οικος), common in Paul (1 Corinthians 3:9-17; Colossians 2:7; Ephesians 2:20).On your...
Jude 1:20 I. Prayer is the Divinely appointed means of obtaining all the promised blessings needful for our spiritual and eternal welfare. This truth is quite clear to the student of Scripture. The li...
CONTENTS: The apostasy and apostate teachers described. Assurance and comfort for true believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Jude, James, Michael, Moses, Cain, Balaam, Enoch, Adam. CONCLUS...
THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is c...
BUT YOU, MY FRIENDS. "You, who do have the Spirit (Acts 5:32), by your conduct and by encouraging one another, must continue to build yourselves up on the foundation of your most sacred faith (the Goo...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:17 Concluding Exhortations. Jude stresses the proper response of believers to false teachers. ⇐...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:20 PRAYING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. That is, praying in harmony with the leading of the Holy Spirit, rather than according to one’s own agenda (see Romans 8:26;...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:20.—This gives positive teaching. It answers the question, What can sincere and earnest believers do to guard themselves from the insidious influence of evil men...
Shall we go to the general epistle of Jude. Jude introduces himself as... A servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James (Jude 1:1), The word servant in Greek is doulos, bondslave of Jesus Christ. B...
1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 14:15; 1 Corinthians 14:26;...
But ye, beloved, not separating, but building yourselves up in your most holy faith — Than which none can be more holy in itself, or more conducive to the most refined and exalted holiness. Praying th...
Our aostle having, in the former part of this chapter, warned the Christians of the danger of seducers, he closes his epistle with directions and advice how they may be preserved from seduction, and w...