Jude 1:24

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, Concluding doxology. NOW - `But.' YOU. So 'Aleph (') C, Vulgate; 'us,' A: B in Tischendorf, 'them.' You is in contradistinction to those ungodly men above. KEEP YOU FROM FALLING, [ fulaxai (G5442) aptaistous (G679)] - 'guard ... (so as to be) without falling,' or stumbling. FAULTLESS, [ amoomous (G299)] - 'blameless.' BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY - i:e., before Himself, when He shall be revealed in glory. With exceeding joy...

24_Now unto him that is able to keep you_. He closes the Epistle with praise to God; by which he shews that our exhortations and labors can do nothing except through the power of God accompanying them. (204) Some copies have “them” instead of “you.” If we receive this reading, the sense will be, “It is, indeed, your duty to endeavor to save them; but it is God alone who can do this” However, the other reading is what I prefer; in which there is an allusion to the preceding verse; for after having exhorted the faithful to save what was perishing, that they might understand that all their efforts would be vain except God worked with them, he testifies that they could not be otherwise saved than through the power of God. In the latter clause there is indeed a different verb, φυλάξαι, which means _to guard_; so the allusion is to a remoter clause, when he said, Kee

24,25 God is able, and as willing as able, to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory. Not as those who never have been faulty, but as those who, but for God's mercy, and a Saviour's sufferings and merits, might most justly have been condemned long ago. All sincere believers were given him of the Father; and of all so given him he has lost none, nor will lose any one. Now, our faults fill us with fears, doubts, and sorrows; but the Redeemer has undertaken for his people, that they shall be presented faultless. Where there is no sin, there will be no sorrow; where there is the perfection of holiness, there will be the perfection of joy. Let us more often look up to Him who is able to keep us from falling, to improve as well as maintain the work he has wrought in us, till we shall be presented blameless before the presence of his glory. Then shal...

Verse Jude 1:24. _NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING_] Who alone can preserve you from the contagion of sin, and preserve you from falling into any kind of error that might be prejudicial to the interests of your souls; and thus to _present you faultless_, or, as many others read, ασπιλους, _without spot_, alluding to the _spotted garment_ mentioned above. _BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY_] Where nothing can stand that does not resemble himself, _with exceeding great joy_, in finding yourselves eternally out of the reach of the possibility of falling, and for having now arrived at an eternity of happiness....

NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING - This ascription to one who was able to keep them from falling is made in view of the facts adverted to in the Epistle - the dangers of being led away by the arts and the example of these teachers of error. Compare Jude 1:3. On the ascription itself, compare the notes at Romans 16:25. The phrase “to keep from falling” means here to preserve from falling into sin, from yielding to temptation, and dishonoring their religion. The word used (ἀπταιστους aptaistous) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It means properly, “not stumbling” as of a horse; then “without falling into sin, blameless.” It is God only who, amidst the temptations of the world, can keep us from falling; but

NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING,.... The people of God are liable to falling into temptation, into sin, into errors and mistakes, from an exercise of grace, or from a degree of steadfastness in Gospel truths, and even into a final and total apostasy, were it not for divine power; and they are not able to keep themselves. Adam, in his state of innocence, could not keep himself from falling; nor could the angels, many of whom fell, and the rest are preserved by the grace of God; wherefore, much less can imperfect sinful men keep themselves, they want both skill and power to do it; nor can any, short of Christ, keep them, and it is his work and office to preserve them; they were given to him with this view, and he undertook to do it; and sensible sinners commit themselves to him, as being appointed for that purpose; and this is a work Christ has been, and is, employed in,...

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 in Jesus Christ. The latter statement may also be translated “kept for Jesus Christ.” What was true of the believers in Jude's day is true of all believers. Especially comforting is the fact, that, no matter how dark the days may be, however strong the current of evil, those who are “the beloved of God called saints” will be preserved in Jesus Christ and kept for Him as the members of His body, till He comes. He keeps His own. It is the blessed assurance that the believer's keeping rests in His own hands. In the Revelation we see in the glory vision that Christ holds seven stars in His right hand, which is the symbol of the hand of His power with which He keeps His own. Then there is th

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...

KEEP. guard. Greek. _phulassso._ Compare John 17:12. FROM FALLING. without falling. Greek. _aptaistos._ Only here. Compare Romans 11:11 (stumble). PRESENT. set, or make stand. See Acts 22:30. FAULTLESS. blameless. Greek. _amomos._ See Ephesians 1:4.Colossians 1:22. BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF. Greek. _katenopion._ See 2 Corinthians 2:17. GLORY. See p. 1511exceeding joy. exultation. G

_Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling_ Better, ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM STUMBLING. See note on the difference between "stumbling" and "falling," on 2 Peter 1:10. The form of the concluding doxology is determined naturally by the thoughts that have led up to it. The writer had been dwelling on the various ways in which men had stumbled and fallen. He now directs their thoughts to God as alone able to preserve them from a like disastrous issue. _to present you faultless before the presence of his glory_ The adjective is a favourite one with St Paul (Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 5:27; Philippians 2:15;...