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Jude 1:18

in Jude 1

when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

KJV

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

This verse in Jude 1

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Andreas of Caesarea

CATENA · Written before 614.

Jude got this from Peter's second letter, where he talks about Paul's writings, for Paul has a lot to say about this.

This site's exposition

remember what was foretold by the apostles

on Jude 1:17-19

But you, beloved, turns from the intruders to the church, and verse 18 gives the apostles' warning in 2 Peter 3:3 and 2 Timothy 3. Verse 19 marks the scoffers in three strokes: they cause divisions, they are worldly, psuchikoi, and they are devoid of the Spirit.

This site's exposition

In the last times there will be scoffers

The warning Jude cites stands close to 2 Peter 3:3, where in the last days scoffers will come. Oecumenius takes the words as Peter's and Paul's, and reads verse 17 as a sign the letter was written after the apostles had died.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Oecumenius

Commentary on Jude · Written before 550.

"remember the words spoken beforehand by the apostles," those by Peter in the second Epistle, and by Paul in almost every epistle. From this, it is clear that this was written last after the apostles had passed away.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time,.... See Gill on 2Pe 3:3.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Exhorts them to perseverance in the faith, fervency in prayer, watchfulness against falling from the love of God, and a lively hope of eternal life,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Mockers in the last time - See the notes on 1Ti 4:1; 2Ti 3:1 (note), etc.; and particularly 2Pe 3:2 , 2Pe 3:3 (note), etc., to which Jude seems to refer. The last time. - The conclusion of the Jewish polity.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

mockers--In the parallel, 2Pe 3:3, the same Greek is translated, "scoffers." The word is found nowhere else in the New Testament.

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The words behind it

17 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Timothy 4:3

    For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.

    it leads to

    • 2 Peter 2:1–3

      Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…

    • 2 Timothy 3:1–6

      But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

    • 1 Timothy 4:1–3

      Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

    • 1 Timothy 1:10

      for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching

    • Galatians 4:16

      Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

  • Through

    2 Timothy 3:13

    while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

    it leads to

    • 1 Timothy 4:1

      Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

  • Through

    2 Peter 3:3

    Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

    it leads to

    • 1 Timothy 4:1–2

      Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

    • 2 Peter 2:10

      Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

Where this verse is studied

About Jude

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562. Public domain.
The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the New Testament; Andreas of Caesarea, CATENA; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Oecumenius, Commentary on Jude.