Jude 1:24 BSB — MannaFest

Jude 1:24

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy,

KJV

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,

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Commentary

3 voices

Clement of Alexandria

From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus (215)

"Now to Him," he says, "who is able to keep you without stumbling, and present you faultless before the presence of His glory in joy." In the presence of His glory: he means in the presence of the angels, to be presented faultless, having become angels.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Now to him who alone is able to keep them from falling - Into any of these errors or sins. And to present them faultless in the presence of his glory - That is, in his own presence, when he shall be revealed in all his glory.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2296: “Saints Guarded From Stumbling” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1893)

THE point and pith of what I may have to say will lie in the alteration of this text caused by the revision of the New Testament. The Revised Version runs thus, "Now unto Him that is able to guard you from stumbling.''" I am not going to speak at any length upon the rest of the text, but shall dwell mainly upon this remarkable alteration, which certainly gives the meaning of the original better than the rendering in the Authorized Version. To begin, then, here is a doxology. Jude is writing upon very practical subjects, indeed.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τῷ	Tō	To Him	G3588 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
δυναμένῳ	dunamenō	being able	G1410 →
φυλάξαι	phulaxai	to keep	G5442 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →
ἀπταίστους	aptaistous	from stumbling	G679 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
στῆσαι	stēsai	to present [you]	G2476 →
κατενώπιον	katenōpion	in the presence of	G2714 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
δόξης	doxēs	glory	G1391 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἀμώμους	amōmous	blameless	G299 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
ἀγαλλιάσει,	agalliasei	exultation —	G20 →

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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The walk

The walk8

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
Ephesians 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 9:8
  And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
- Romans 4:21
  being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.
- Jeremiah 32:27
  “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?
- 1 Corinthians 2:9
  Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
- Ephesians 1:19
  and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
Through
2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
leads to
- Psalms 121:7
  The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3
  But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- Jude 1:24–25
  Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—