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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jude 1:24

Now to him who alone is able to keep them from falling — Into any of these errors or sins. And to present them faultless in the presence of his glory — That is, in his own presence, when he shall be revealed in all his glory.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jude 1:24. _NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING_] Who alone can preserve you from the contagion of sin, and preserve you from falling into any kind of error that might be prejudic...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING - This ascription to one who was able to keep them from falling is made in view of the facts adverted to in the Epistle - the dangers of being led aw...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Unto him who is able to keep you from slipping and to make you stand blameless and exultant in the presence of his glory, to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    KEEP. guard. Greek. _phulassso._ Compare John 17:12. FROM FALLING. without falling. Greek. _aptaistos._ Only here. Compare Romans 11:11 (stumble). PRESENT. set, or make stand. See Acts 22:30. fau

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling_ Better, ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM STUMBLING. See note on the difference between "stumbling" and "falling," on 2 Peter 1:10. The form of the concluding...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    24, 25. The beautiful ending of the Epistle grows naturally out of the preceding words. The thought of the fate that attends those who have gone astray leads to a prayer that the faithful may be prese...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOW UNTO HIM, &C.— "Now, to conclude with a solemn doxology, which belongs, as to all the Persons in the adorable Godhead, so particularly to our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have been speaking of under...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _CONCLUSION: A BELIEVER GUARDED SECURELY IN THE STATE OF HIS CHOICE_ Jude 1:24-25 _Text_ 24. Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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, Concluding doxology. NOW - `But.' YOU. So 'Aleph (') C, Vul...

  • Commentary on the Minor Epistles by Caton

    VERSE 24. NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE. That is, unto God. To him is this doxology addressed. God only is capable of so guarding our footsteps that we neither stumble nor fall. The Christian life is, met...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FALLING] RV 'stumbling': cp. Romans 11:11; 1 Peter 2:8. FAULTLESS] RV 'without blemish': cp. Ephesians 1:4 (RV); Colossians 1:22; (RV)...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 38 THE FINAL DOXOLOGY: PRAISE TO GOD, THE PROTECTOR OF HIS SERVANTS. Jude 1:24 FROM his severe and somber warnings and exhortations St. Jude turns in joyous and exulting confidence to Him wh...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τῷ δὲ δυναμένῳ φυλάξαι ὑμᾶς ἀπταίστους. Apparently a reminiscence [801] of Romans 16:25 f., τῷ δὲδυναμένῳ ὑμᾶς στηρίξαι … μόνῳ σοφῷ Θεῷ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώ, ων. Similar...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Final Benediction and Ascription_. I have bidden you to keep yourselves in the love of God; I have warned you against all impiety and impurity. But do not think that you can attain to the one, or gua...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    ASSURANCE FOR THE CHRISTIAN Jude closed his book with a prayer. It was directed to Jesus, our protector. He can keep one from stumbling, which will, in turn, keep him from falling. One who avoids fall...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (14) 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, (14) He commends them to the grace of God, declaring suffi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Now to him, &c. St. Jude concludes his epistle with this doxology of praising God, and praying to the only God, our Saviour, which may either signify God the Father, or God as equally agreeing to all...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _ABLE TO KEEP AND TO SAVE_ ‘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, to the only wise God our Saviour, be...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    24_Now unto him that is able to keep you_. He closes the Epistle with praise to God; by which he shews that our exhortations and labors can do nothing except through the power of God accompanying them...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING,.... The people of God are liable to falling into temptation, into sin, into errors and mistakes, from an exercise of grace, or from a degree of stea...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now unto him who_ alone _is able to keep you from falling_ Into any of these errors or sins, or _from stumbling_, as απταιστους literally signifies, rugged and dangerous as the ways of life are, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Concluding doxology:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    24,25 God is able, and as willing as able, to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory. Not as those who never have been faulty, but as those who, but for Go...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    _Able to keep you from falling; _ from stumbling in your spiritual course, and so able to make you persevere to the end. _Before the presence of his glory; _ or, his glorious presence, i.e. before him...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jude 1:24 Now G1161 able G1410 (G5740) keep G5442 (G5658) you G5209 (G5625) G846 stumbling...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Jude 1:24-25. Exhortations to keep themselves in the love of God are fitly followed by a doxology which reminds them that the power and grace are from Him who alone can keep them. NOW TO HIM THAT IS A...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    FROM STUMBLING (απταιστους). Verbal from πταιω, to stumble (James 3:2; 2 Peter 1:10), sure-footed as of a horse that does not stumble (Xenophon), and so of a good man (Epictetus, Marcus Antoninus)....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    TO HIM. To God our Father. WHO IS ABLE. "To give you courage to _run the full distance in the faith,_ and to show you God's promise, I tell you He is able to keep you from falling into error or sin!...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    THE GREAT KEEPER Him that is able to keep you from falling. Jude 1:24 (AV). Our text is at the end of one of the gloomiest books in the Bible. We know little about the writer of it, but he must have...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:24 God has the power TO KEEP from STUMBLING those who have put their faith in him. By “stumbling” Jude means falling into sin or error. If such behavior continues it will eventuall...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:17 Concluding Exhortations. Jude stresses the proper response of believers to false teachers. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:24. ABLE TO KEEP YOU.—Whatever may be said about your self-efforts, the supreme truth is that God can keep, and your supreme hope should rest on the assurance t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 4:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 11:2;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    To keep you from falling [φ υ λ α ξ α ι υ μ α ς α π τ α ι σ τ ο υ ς]. Lit., " to keep you without stumbling. Only here in New Testament. See the kindred word offend. Rev., stumble, James 2:10; James 3...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. How our apostle shuts up his exhortation with prayer; having exhorted them to duty, he commends them to the divine grace, intimating, that the fruit of all must be expected from God,...

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