Jude 1:7 BSB — MannaFest

Jude 1:7

In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

BSB

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ASV

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

KJV

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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Commentary

5 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book IV (202)

Since the Son of God is always one and the same, He gives to those who believe on Him a well of water [springing up] to eternal life, but He causes the unfruitful fig-tree immediately to dry up; and in the days of Noah He justly brought on the deluge for the purpose of extinguishing that most infamous race of men then existent, who could not bring forth fruit to God, since the angels that sinned had commingled with them, and [acted as He did] in order that He might put a check upon the sins of these men, but [that at the same time] He might preserve the archetype, the formation of Adam.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them,.... Admah and Zeboiim, for Zoar was spared.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The cities which gave themselves over to fornication - The word here means, unnatural lusts. Are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire - That is, the vengeance which they suffered is an example or a type of eternal fire.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha - Notes, 2Pe 2:6. And the cities about them - Admah and Zeboim, Gen 14:2; Deu 29:23; Hos 11:8. There may have been other towns, also, that perished at the same time, but these are particularly mentioned. They seem to have partaken of the same general characteristics, as neighboring towns and cities generally do. In like manner - “In a manner like to these,” (τὸν ὅμοιον τούτοις τρόπον ton homoion toutois tropon.) The Greek word “these,” is in the plural number. There has been much diversity in interpreting this clause.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὡς	hōs	just as	G5613 →
Σόδομα	Sodoma	Sodom	G4670 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
Γόμορρα	Gomorra	Gomorrah	G1116 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
αἱ	hai	the	G3588 →
περὶ	peri	around	G4012 →
αὐτὰς	autas	them	G846 →
πόλεις	poleis	cities	G4172 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
ὅμοιον	homoion	in like	G3664 →
τρόπον	tropon	manner	G5158 →
τούτοις	toutois	with them	G3778 →
ἐκπορνεύσασαι	ekporneusasai	having indulged in sexual immorality	G1608 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπελθοῦσαι	apelthousai	having gone	G565 →
ὀπίσω	opisō	after	G3694 →
σαρκὸς	sarkos	flesh	G4561 →
ἑτέρας,	heteras	strange,	G2087 →
πρόκεινται	prokeintai	are set forth as	G4295 →
δεῖγμα	deigma	an example	G1164 →
πυρὸς	puros	of fire	G4442 →
αἰωνίου	aiōniou	eternal	G166 →
δίκην	dikēn	[the] penalty	G1349 →
ὑπέχουσαι.	hupechousai	undergoing.	G5254 →

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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
2 Peter 2:6
if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
leads to
- Genesis 19:24–25
  Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 17:28–30
  It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
- Deuteronomy 29:23
  All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
- Numbers 26:10
  And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.
Through
Genesis 18:20
Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
leads to
- Genesis 19:13
  because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
- Ezekiel 16:49–50
  Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
Through
Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
leads to
- Zephaniah 2:9
  Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual…
- Jeremiah 17:6
  He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

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