They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
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They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”
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how that they tolde you that ther shulde be begylers in the last tyme which shuld walke after ther awne vngodly lustes.
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How that they told you that there should be mockers in ye last time, which should walke after their owne vngodly lustes.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Jude 1:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Peter 3:3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
- 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
- 2 Timothy 3:1-5 But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
- 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
- 1 Timothy 4:1-2 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,
- 2 Peter 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
- Psalms 14:1-2 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good. Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
- Acts 20:29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
- Jude 1:16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain By the last time he means that in which…
By the last time he means that in which the renewed condition of the Church received a fixed form till the end of the world; and it began at the first coming of Christ.
After the usual manner of Scripture, he calls them scoffers who, being inebriated with a profane and impious contempt of God, rush headlong into a brutal contempt of the Divine Being, so that no fear nor reverence keeps them any longer within the limits of duty: as no dread of a future judgment exists in their hearts, so no hope of eternal life. So at this day the world is full of Epicurean despisers of God, who having cast off every fear, madly scoff at the whole doctrine of true religion, regarding it as fabulous.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Told you; whether in their preaching or writing.
Told you; whether in their preaching or writing.
Ungodly lusts; Greek, lusts of ungodliness; a Hebraism; the vilest lusts.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain How that they told you that there should be…
How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time,.... See Gill on Pe2 3:3.
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jde 1:19These be they who separate themselves,.... Not from sinners openly profane; such a separation is commendable, being according to the will and word of God, to the mind and practice of Christ, and which tends to the good of men, and to the glory of God; but from the saints and people of God; it is possible that a child of God may for a time leave the fellowship of the saints, but an entire and total forsaking of them, and of assembling with them, looks with an ill aspect; nor did they separate themselves from superstition and will worship, and every false way of worship, which would have been right, but from the pure worship, ordinances, and discipline of God's house, by a perversion of them, and as being above them, or unwilling to be under any notice and government; not from errors and heresies, and persons that held them, with these they herded; but from the pure doctrines of the Gospel, and ministers of the word, and made divisions and separations among the churches, for worldly ends, and through pride and affectation of vain glory, as if they were more knowing, more holy, and more spiritual than other men: when they were
sensual; such as gave themselves up to sensual lusts and pleasures; and at best were but natural men, who had only natural and rational abilities, but without spiritual and experimental knowledge: hence it follows,
having not the Spirit; though they might have some external gifts of the Spirit; or he himself dwelling in them as a spirit of conviction and illumination, as a spirit of regeneration and sanctification, as a spirit of faith and comfort, as a spirit of adoption, and as the earnest and pledge of the heavenly glory; they were not under his influence, nor did they feel the operations of his grace, nor had they communion with him: hence they appeared to be none of Christ's, nor could they claim interest in him, and were without life, and so could not persevere.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. Mockers in the last time] See the…
Verse 18. Mockers in the last time] See the notes on 1Ti 4:1; 2Ti 3:1, c. and particularly 2Pe 3:2-3, &c., to which Jude seems to refer.
The last time. - The conclusion of the Jewish polity.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain mockers--In the parallel, Pe2 3:3, the same Greek is…
mockers--In the parallel, Pe2 3:3, the same Greek is translated, "scoffers." The word is found nowhere else in the New Testament. How ALFORD can deny that Pe2 3:2-3 is referred to (at least in part), I cannot imagine, seeing that Jude quotes the very words of Peter as the words which the apostles used to speak to his (Jude's) readers.
walk after their own ungodly lusts--literally, "after (according to) their own lusts of ungodliness."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. Mockers… walk after their own… lusts—Same Greek words…
18. Mockers… walk after their own… lusts—Same Greek words as in 2Pe_3:3; where see note: yet speaking here of a different set of mockers or scoffers.
In the last time—Using nearly the same words of the same verse in Peter, yet referring to a different time.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. there should be mockers in the last time…
18. there should be mockers in the last time …] The word for “mockers” is found in 2Pe_3:3, but the general character of those described agrees with the picture drawn in 1Ti_4:1; 2Ti_3:1. St Jude, it will be noted, does not dwell on the specific form of mockery, the taunts as to the delay in the second coming of the Lord, on which St Peter lays stress.
walk after their own ungodly lusts] Literally, after the lusts of their own impieties. The last word adds a special feature to the description already given, in nearly the same words, in Jud_1:16.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 18. How that they told you there would be…
18. How that they told you there would be mockers. See 2 Pet. 3:3; 1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:1. Last time. In the last dispensation.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 1:18 Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron, with Gath and Ashdod,…
1:18 Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron, with Gath and Ashdod, later made up the five main cities of the Philistines (3:3).
1:18 in the last times: The coming of Jesus as Messiah inaugurated the last stage of God’s plan, when the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies about the last days began to take place. For this reason, Jude applies the apostles’ prophecy about the last times to the immediate crisis created by the false teachers (1:19).
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