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

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

Bible References

Crept

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, to whom we gave no commandment;

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

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.

Who

Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old does not linger, and their destruction is not asleep.

Turning

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all mankind,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Denying

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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

General references

"'If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

For already some have turned aside after Satan.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.