Jude 1:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Crept

2 Peter 2:1

Who

Romans 9:21

1 Peter 2:8

2 Peter 2:3

Turning

Denying

Titus 1:15

2 Peter 2:1

1 John 2:22

General references

Matthew 24:11

1 Timothy 5:15

James 2:19

Bible References

Crept

but while men slept his enemy came and resowed weeds among the wheat and then went away.

Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins ??wayward creatures of impulse,

Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,

Who

What! has the potter no right over the clay? Has he no right to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for a menial?

a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

Turning

Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'?

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

particularly those who fall in with the polluting appetite of the flesh and despise the Powers celestial. Daring, presumptuous creatures! they are not afraid to scoff at the angelic Glories;

Denying

For the pure all things are pure, but nothing is pure for the polluted and unbelieving; their very mind and conscience are polluted.

Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son.

General references

Many false prophets will rise and mislead many.

As it is, some widows have already turned after Satan. ??16 Any believer, man or woman, who has widowed relatives, must give them relief; the church is not to be burdened with them; she has to relieve the widows who really need relief.

You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.