Focused Passage

Jude 1:5-7

Contend for the Faith, Keep Yourselves in God’s Love, and Rest in the God Who Keeps You

Jude moves from divine preservation and mercy, to the urgent call to contend for the apostolic faith, to examples of judgment against rebellion, to exposure of ungodly intruders, to the church’s call to persevere in love and mercy, and finally to a doxology celebrating the God who is able to keep his people from falling.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

5 Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

6 And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

7 In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

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Verse 5

Cross-references

Hebrews 3:16 Classic cross-references Numbers 26:64 Classic cross-references 1 Corinthians 10:1 Classic cross-references Psalms 106:26 Classic cross-references Numbers 14:22 Classic cross-references Genesis 19:1–29 OliveGrove study links Numbers 14:26–35 OliveGrove study links

Original words

vvv δὲ G1161 Conjunction Although you are fully aware of this εἰδότας G1492 Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural . . . ὑμᾶς G4771 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural . . . «πάντα G3956 Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural I want βούλομαι G1014 Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular to remind Ὑπομνῆσαι G5279 Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active you ὑμᾶς G4771 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 2nd Person Plural that ὅτι G3754 Conjunction - τὸ G3588 Article - Accusative Neuter Singular after δεύτερον G1208 Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular . . . ἅπαξ G530 Adverb Jesus Ἰησοῦς» G2424 Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular had delivered σώσας G4982 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular [His] people λαὸν G2992 Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular out of ἐκ G1537 Preposition [the] land γῆς G1093 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular of Egypt Αἰγύπτου G125 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular He destroyed ἀπώλεσεν G622 Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular those who τοὺς G3588 Article - Accusative Masculine Plural vvv μὴ G3361 Adverb did not believe πιστεύσαντας G4100 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural

BSB notes

NE, WH, BYZ, and TR the Lord

Verse 6

Cross-references

2 Peter 2:4 Classic cross-references John 8:12 Classic cross-references John 8:44 Classic cross-references Matthew 25:41 Classic cross-references Ephesians 6:12 Classic cross-references Genesis 19:1–29 OliveGrove study links Numbers 14:26–35 OliveGrove study links

Original words

And τε G5037 Conjunction [the] angels ἀγγέλους G32 Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural who τοὺς G3588 Article - Accusative Masculine Plural vvv μὴ G3361 Adverb did not stay within τηρήσαντας G5083 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural their ἑαυτῶν G1438 Reflexive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural [own] τὴν G3588 Article - Accusative Feminine Singular domain ἀρχὴν G746 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular but ἀλλὰ G235 Conjunction abandoned ἀπολιπόντας G620 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural their τὸ G3588 Article - Accusative Neuter Singular [proper] ἴδιον G2398 Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular dwelling οἰκητήριον G3613 Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular [these] He has kept τετήρηκεν G5083 Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular in eternal ἀϊδίοις G126 Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural chains δεσμοῖς G1199 Noun - Dative Masculine Plural under ὑπὸ G5259 Preposition darkness ζόφον G2217 Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular {bound} for εἰς G1519 Preposition judgment κρίσιν G2920 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular on [that] great μεγάλης G3173 Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular day ἡμέρας G2250 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular

Verse 7

Cross-references

Romans 1:26 Classic cross-references Leviticus 18:22 Classic cross-references 2 Peter 2:6 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 29:23 Classic cross-references Leviticus 20:13 Classic cross-references Genesis 19:1–29 OliveGrove study links Numbers 14:26–35 OliveGrove study links

Original words

- τὸν G3588 Article - Accusative Masculine Singular In like ὅμοιον G3664 Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular manner τρόπον G5158 Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular . . . τούτοις G3778 Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Masculine Plural - ὡς G5613 Adverb Sodom Σόδομα G4670 Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction Gomorrah Γόμορρα G1116 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular and καὶ G2532 Conjunction the αἱ G3588 Article - Nominative Feminine Plural cities πόλεις G4172 Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural around περὶ G4012 Preposition them αὐτὰς G846 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Feminine 3rd Person Plural who indulged in sexual immorality ἐκπορνεύσασαι G1608 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction pursued ἀπελθοῦσαι G565 Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Plural . . . ὀπίσω G3694 Preposition strange ἑτέρας G2087 Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular flesh σαρκὸς G4561 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular are on display πρόκεινται G4295 Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural as an example δεῖγμα G1164 Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular of those who sustain ὑπέχουσαι G5254 Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Plural [the] punishment δίκην G1349 Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular of eternal αἰωνίου G166 Adjective - Genitive Neuter Singular fire πυρὸς G4442 Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular

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