Verse Jude 1:21. _KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD_] By building up yourselves on your most holy faith, and praying in the Holy Ghost; for without this we shall soon lose the love of God. _LOOKING...
KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD - Still adverting to their own agency. On the duty here enjoined, see the notes at John 15:9. The phrase “the love of God” may mean either God’s love to us, or our l...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE INTRODUCTION Jude 1:1 Jude in his brief introduction speaks of the Christian believers, whom he addresses, as called ones, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved...
These false brethren make divisions among you, but do you build up yourselves by means of your most holy faith. As regards them, show mercy towards those who are in doubt; save others, snatching them...
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
But you, beloved, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith; you must pray in the Holy Spirit; you must keep yourselves in the love of God; while you wait for the mercy of our...
THE LOVE OF GOD. God's love to you, i.e. the assurance of it, basedon His Word. LOOKING FOR. Greek. _prosdechomai._ See Acts 23:21. LIFE. App-170....
_keep yourselves in the love of God_ The words admit equally of being taken of our love for God, or God's love for us, but the latter meaning is more in harmony with the general tenor of Scripture, an...
ΠΡΟΣΔΕΧΌΜΕΝΟΙ ΤῸ ἜΛΕΟΣ as Symeon in Luke 2:25. Cf. Titus 2:13 προσδεχόμενοι τὴν μακαρίαν ἐλπίδα κ.τ.λ....
KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD,— The word 'Εαυτους is put for αλληλου, _one another,_ both here and in Jude 1:20. See 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:13. The meaningand connection is, that...
_A BELIEVER WHO GUARDS HIMSELF BY BUILDING UP A GROWING FAITH_ Jude 1:20-23 _Text_ 20. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21. keep yours...
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. In Jude 1:20, Jude combines the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: faith, hope, and love. KEEP YOUR...
VERSE 21. KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD. Constantly keeping before our minds what we owe as a duty to God for his wondrous mercy and love to us, we will do cheerfully, willingly and gladly what h...
1:21 yourselves (f-2) Aorist; be in that state....
God’s great love was the reason why he originally called people to begin a life of loyal service (verse 1). • The false teachers do not have the Spirit (verse 9). So they have no love for God. And th...
FIGHT FOR THE *FAITH! JUDE _HILDA BRIGHT_ WHAT THIS LETTER IS ABOUT Jude wrote the letter to warn his readers against false teachers. These teachers claimed to be Christians. But they were being...
(20, 21) Exhortation to strengthen themselves in the faith by prayer, godliness, and hope. (20) BUT YE, BELOVED. — Exactly as in Jude 1:17 : “ye” in emphatic contrast to these sensuous and unspiritual...
CHAPTER 37 THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO KORAH; MAKING SEPARATIONS-EXHORTATION TO THE FAITHFUL TO BUILD UP THEMSELVES, AND THEN RESCUE OTHERS. Jude 1:19. FOR the third and last time St. Jude poi...
ἑαυτοὺς ἐν ἀγάπῃ Θεοῦ τηρήσατε. In Jude 1:1 the passive is used: those who are addressed are described as kept and beloved (_cf._ Jude 1:24, τῷ δυναμένῳ φυλάξαι): here the active is used and emphasise...
_The Final Charge to the Faithful_. Use all diligence to escape this danger. Make the most of the privileges vouchsafed to you. Build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith by prayer...
BEWARE OF THE TOUCH OF THE UNGODLY Jude 1:12 What traps and pitfalls beset us! How many have fallen who had as good or a better chance than we! The angels kept not their first estate; Adam, though cr...
THE BELIEVER AND THE FAITH In contrast to the ungodly, the faithful were to build upon their faith and pray in the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26; Ephesians 6:18). The idea of building on the f...
_Building yourselves. That is, raising by your actions a spiritual building, founded 1. upon faith; 2. on the love of God; 3. upon hope, whilst you are awaiting for the mercies of God, and the reward...
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. The Apostle here enters upon the subject of the Church, in pointing out her safety in Christ, amids...
CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chapt...
_IN THE LOVE OF GOD_ ‘Keep yourselves in the love of God.’ Jude 1:21 There are many places and relationships in our human life in which it is honourable and a privilege to be—how suggestive to brin...
21._Keep yourselves in the love of God. _He has made love as it were the guardian and the ruler of our life; not that he might set it in opposition to the grace of God, but that it is the right course...
The Epistle of Jude develops the history of the apostasy of Christendom, from the earliest elements that crept into the assembly to corrupt it, down to its judgment at the appearing of our Lord, but a...
KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD,.... By which may be meant either the grace and favour of God, that love with which God loves his people; and then the exhortation to the saints to keep themselves i...
_But ye, beloved_ Not separating yourselves from your Christian brethren, but _building up_ Or edifying one another in knowledge and grace; _on_, or _in, your most holy faith_ The true Christian faith...
KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD, LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE....
An admonition to holy steadfastness:...
17-23 Sensual men separate from Christ, and his church, and join themselves to the devil, the world, and the flesh, by ungodly and sinful practices. That is infinitely worse than to separate from any...
_Keep yourselves in the love of God; _ i.e. in love to God, or that love whereby ye love God; this implies love to each other, as the cause doth the effect. _Looking for; _ viz. by hope: and so in the...
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‘But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.' Ju...
HAVING EXPOSED THE UNGODLY JUDE NOW TURNS TO THE GODLY AND SEEKS TO ENCOURAGE THEM AND GIVE THEM GUIDANCE (JUDE 1:17). He first reminds God's true people that what is happening is in full accord with...
Jude 1:20-21. BUT YE (strongly emphatic), BELOVED, as against those dividers of the Church who are pulling it down stone by stone, EVER BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN THE H...
KEEP YOURSELVES (εαυτους τηρησατε). First aorist active imperative (of urgency) of τηρεω. In verse Jude 1:1 they are said to be kept, but note the warning in verse Jude 1:5 from the angels who did n...
Jude 1:21 A Christmas Morning Talk with Children. I. Love is a fire that wants a great deal of keeping. "Keep yourselves in the love of God." When I am writing in my study sometimes, what do you thin...
CONTENTS: The apostasy and apostate teachers described. Assurance and comfort for true believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Jude, James, Michael, Moses, Cain, Balaam, Enoch, Adam. CONCLUS...
THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is c...
AND KEEP YOURSELVES. "God does not cease to love any man, since God himself is _love._ However, you as a person must keep yourself within the circle of His _fatherly love,_ which is only available to...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:17 Concluding Exhortations. Jude stresses the proper response of believers to false teachers. ⇐...
JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:21 KEEP (or guard) YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD. Christians do this by growing strong doctrinally (v. Jude 1:20), persevering in p
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Jude 1:20.—This gives positive teaching. It answers the question, What can sincere and earnest believers do to guard themselves from the insidious influence of evil men...
Shall we go to the general epistle of Jude. Jude introduces himself as... A servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James (Jude 1:1), The word servant in Greek is doulos, bondslave of Jesus Christ. B...
1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:17; 1 John 4:16; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 5:11;...
By these means, through his grace, keep yourselves in the love of God, and in the confident expectation of that eternal life which is purchased for you, and conferred upon you, through the mere mercy...