Jude 1:8

In like manner, nevertheless, even these, in their dreamings, flesh indeed defile, while lordship they set aside, and dignities they defame.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7As, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having in like manner to these given themselves over to fornication, and gone away after other kind of flesh, lie exposed as an example, a penalty of age-abiding fire, undergoing.

9Whereas, Michael, the chief-messenger, when, with the adversary, disputing, he was reasoning about the body of Moses, durst not impose on him a defamatory sentence, but said—The Lord rebuke thee!

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Cross References

Genesis 3:5For God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then shall your eyes be opened,—and ye shall become like God, knowing good and evil.

Numbers 16:3and gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them Too much for you, when, all the assembly, are, all of them, holy, and in the midst of them, is Yahweh,—Wherefore, then, should ye set yourselves up, above the convocation of Yahweh?

Psalms 2:1Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?

Proverbs 30:11A generation! Its father, it revileth, and, its mother, it doth not bless.

Ecclesiastes 10:20Even in thy thought, do not revile, the king, nor, within thy bed-chambers, revile thou the rich,—for, a bird of the heavens, might carry the voice, yea, an owner of wings, might tell the matter.

Luke 11:25and, coming, findeth it, [empty,] swept, and adorned.

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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