Jude 1:13 BSB — MannaFest

Jude 1:13

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

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ASV

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.

KJV

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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Commentary

3 voices

Clement of Alexandria

From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus (215)

"Waves," he says, "of a raging sea." By these words he signifies the life of the Gentiles, whose end is abominable ambition. "Wandering stars,"— that is, he means those who err and are apostates are of that kind of stars which fell from the seats of the angels— "to whom," for their apostasy, "the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Raging waves of the sea - Compare 2Pe 2:18. They are like the wild and restless waves of the ocean. The image here seems to be, that they were noisy and bold in their professions, and were as wild and ungovernable in their passions as the billows of the sea. Foaming out their own shame - The waves are lashed into foam, and break and dash on the shore. They seem to produce nothing but foam, and to proclaim their own shame, that after all their wild roaring and agitation they should effect no more.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Jude has in mind Isa 57:20. shame--plural in Greek, "shames" (compare Php 3:19). wandering stars--instead of moving on in a regular orbit, as lights to the world, bursting forth on the world like erratic comets, or rather, meteors of fire, with a strange glare, and then doomed to fall back again into the blackness of gloom.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
κύματα	kumata	waves	G2949 →
ἄγρια	agria	wild	G66 →
θαλάσσης	thalassēs	of [the] sea	G2281 →
ἐπαφρίζοντα	epaphrizonta	foaming out	G1890 →
τὰς	tas	<the>	G3588 →
ἑαυτῶν	he'autōn	their own	G1438 →
αἰσχύνας,	aischunas	shame,	G152 →
ἀστέρες	asteres	stars	G792 →
πλανῆται	planētai	wandering	G4107 →
οἷς	hois	to whom	G3739 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ζόφος	zophos	gloom	G2217 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
σκότους	skotous	of darkness	G4655 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
αἰῶνα	aiōna	age	G165 →
τετήρηται.	tetērētai	has been reserved.	G5083 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
leads to
- Romans 16:18
  For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
- Romans 8:5–7
  Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
- 2 Peter 2:3
  In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
- Colossians 3:2
  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- 2 Corinthians 11:15
  It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.
Through
2 Peter 2:17
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
leads to
- Jude 1:12–13
  These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after…
Through
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
leads to
- Isaiah 3:11
  Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- Proverbs 4:16–17
  For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jude

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jude