Jude 1:8

Yet in the same way these people, too, cherishing vain dreams, pollute our human nature, reject control, and malign the celestial beings.

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In The King James Version

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

In Context

7Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, punishment in eternal fire.

9Yet even Michael, the archangel, when, in his dispute with the devil, he was arguing about the body of Moses, did not venture to charge him with maligning, but said merely ‘The Lord rebuke you!’

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Cross References

Genesis 3:5God knows that on the day you eat some of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing what is good and what is evil.”

Psalms 2:1Why this turmoil of nations, this futile plotting of peoples,

Luke 11:25but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.

Matthew Henry on Jude 1:4-8

The Common Salvation; Monuments of Judgment. ( a. d. 66.) 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 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 Lord Jesus Christ. 5 I will… Read the whole commentary →

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