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Jude 1:4

For some godless men. "I felt a need to write because some spiritual saboteurs have slipped in unnoticed." Who distort. "They claim to be inspired. They say God is too good to punish sinners. They teach an easy grace, which they say allows the believer unlimited sin with no fear of punishment." And reject Jesus Christ. "They say our human bodies are totally evil, and deny that Jesus is The Christ. They say the Logos who is infinitely holy could not have come in evil flesh and blood. By doing this, they reject Christ-on-the-cross, who is the means of our salvation!" Long ago. "The Scriptures predicted the fact that such people would come, and also the doom of such as these!" See Jude 1:14; Jude 1:17.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    VER. JUDE 1:4 despo,thn {A} Since despo,thj was sometimes used by Greek writers to refer to God (in the New Testament at Luke 2:29;...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jude 1:4. _FOR THERE ARE CERTAIN MEN CREPT IN UNAWARES_] παρεισεδυσαν. They had got into the Church under _specious_ _pretences_; and, when in, began to sow their bad seed. _BEFORE OF OLD ORDA...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THERE ARE CERTAIN MEN CREPT IN UNAWARES - The apostle now gives “reason” for thus defending the truth, to wit, that there were artful and wicked men who had crept into the church, pretending to be...

  • 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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The author had intended to write them a pastoral letter, but circumstances have made it necessary for him to write in a different strain and to exhort them to contend earnestly for the faith. These ci...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THERE ARE. Omit. CERTAIN. App-124. MEN. App-123. CREPT IN UNAWARES. Greek. _pareisduo._ Only here. Compare Galatians 1:2; Galatians 1:4; 2 Peter 2:1. BEFORE... ORDAINED. before wr

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For there are certain men crept in unawares_ More literally, FOR THERE CREPT IN UNAWARES CERTAIN MEN … There is a touch of contempt in the way in which, as in Galatians 2:4; 2 Peter 2:1, the false te...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΠΑΡΕΙΣΕΔΎΗΣΑΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. It is here that the parallelism with 2 Peter begins most obviously. To comment upon the matter common to the two Epistles would be to repeat the notes on 2 Peter. I shall therefor...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THERE ARE CERTAIN MEN CREPT IN, &C.— _The creeping in unawares,_ in St. Jude, has a plain resemblance and reference to the _privily bringing in_ mentioned by St. Peter, 2 Peter 2:1. Both the words...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _A WRITTEN WARNING OF APOSTASY_ Jude 1:4 _Text_ 4. For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grac...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 ou...

  • Commentary on the Minor Epistles by Caton

    VERSE 4. FOR THERE ARE CERTAIN MEN CREPT IN UNAWARES. The reason for the haste in writing and the urgency of the exhortation are here given. Unawares, or slyly, certain men, false teachers, had crept...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 Jude's stress on human relationships is very strong, especially as James, his brother, gained the ascendancy among the Circumcision because of his physical relationship to the Lord. Even Peter and J...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:4 beforehand (e-15) The article is used here with the perfect participle. The word signifies to appoint by notice beforehand, to fix by proclamation. They are _ the_ ones who of old were so noticed...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *New Testament often uses the form of words ‘certain … men’ to refer to a particular group. (It is like when someone today says, ‘You know whom I mean!’). Teachers that travelled from one place to...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (3, 4) The purpose and occasion of the Letter. (3) BELOVED. — “Very unusual at the beginning of an Epistle; Jude 1:2, is the only other example It indicates, possibly, the writer’s wish to be brief an...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 32 THE PERSONS DENOUNCED IN THE EPISTLE ITS RELATION TO PETER. Jude 1:4 WE have here the occasion of the letter stated very plainly. St. Jude was meditating a letter on a more general subjec...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Nature of the Threatened Danger_. It is stealthy; it is serious enough to have been predicted long ago; its characteristic is impiety, showing itself in the antinomian misuse of the Gospel of God's f...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Reasons for Writing_. He had been intending to write to them on that which is the common interest of all Christians, salvation through Christ, but was compelled to abandon his intention by news which...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “CONTEND EARNESTLY FOR THE FAITH” Jude 1:1 Kept is the keynote of this Epistle. It occurs in Jude 1:1; Jude 1:6; Jude 1:21, and in another form in...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    APOSTATES DESCRIBED Jude explained that false teachers were the cause of his writing. Woods says the idea of "crept in unnoticed" is that of entering in by the side door, without revealing their motiv...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (2) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, (3) ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God,...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    For there have crept in some men, impious men, (who were of old[2] foretold that they should fall into condemnation, by their own obdurate malice) the disciples of Simon, and the Nicolaites, who endea...

  • 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

    _IN DEFENCE OF THE FAITH_ ‘Earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.’ Jude 1:3 It has become the fashion to deprecate controversy, but this Epistle shows us that the...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _SOUND DOCTRINE AND HOLY LIVING_ ‘Ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.’ Jude 1:4 Sound doctrine leads to holy living. Perverted doctrine goes with unholy living. Let us lo...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._For there are certain men crept in unawares_. Though Satan is ever an enemy to the godly, and never ceases to harass them, yet Jude reminds those to whom he was writing of the state of things at th...

  • 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

    FOR THERE ARE CERTAIN MEN CREPT IN UNAWARES,.... These words contain a reason why the doctrine of faith should be contended for, because of false teachers, who are described as being then upon the spo...

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

    _For there are certain men_ (see the margin) _crept in unawares_ Insinuating themselves into people's affections by their plausible pretences, and leavening them by degrees with their errors. The ungo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    An exhortation to constancy in faith:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 L...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 Christians are called out of the world, from the evil spirit and temper of it; called above the world, to higher and better things, to heaven, things unseen and eternal; called from sin to Christ...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    _Who were before of old ordained; _ Greek, forewritten, i.e. of whom it was formerly written, or foretold, viz. by Christ and his apostles; or rather, it is to be understood according to our translati...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jude 1:4 For G1063 certain G5100 men G444 unnoticed G3921 (G5656) who G3588 ago G3819 out G4270 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘For there are certain men crept in surreptitiously, even they who were of old written of beforehand to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying ou...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDE'S REASON FOR WRITING (JUDE 1:3). Jude had seemingly intended to write a letter dealing with the question of ‘our common salvation', but apparently he had received news about the evil behaviour of...

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

    Jude 1:4. FOR THERE ARE CERTAIN MEN; unknown, insignificant men, or otherwise not worth describing; but when their true character was seen, it was plain that they belonged to a class long before descr...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    ARE CREPT IN (παρεισεδυησαν). Second aorist passive indicative of παρεισδυω (-νω), late (Hippocrates, Plutarch, etc.) compound of παρα (beside) and εις (in) and δυω to sink or plunge, so to slip in...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:3 Jude’s Appeal: Contend for the Faith. Jude urges his readers to stand for the faith against the false teachers. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:4 CREPT IN UNNOTICED. The false teachers seem to be Christians. DESIGNATED translates a Greek word meaning “to write about or identify beforehand.” The false teachers did not take...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:3. COMMON SALVATION.—It does not immediately appear why he uses this epithet “common.” He may only mean, “this salvation which is a matter of common interest to...

  • 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 John 2:22; 1 Peter 2:16; 1 Peter 2:8; 1 Peter 4:18; 1 Timothy 6:15;...

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

    With the whole verse compare 2 Peter 2:1. Crept in unawares [π α ρ ε ι σ ε δ υ σ α ν]. Rev., privily. See on 2 Peter 2:1. The verb means to get in by the side [π α ρ α], to slip in by a side - door....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    There are certain men crept in, who were of old described before — Even as early as Enoch; of whom it was foretold, that by their wilful sins they would incur this condemnation. Turning the grace of G...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here we have. reason of the foregoing exhortation assigned, why we should contend so earnestly for the Christian faith once delivered by Christ to his apostles, because there were crept, by little and...

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