Jude 1:10
8 Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
9 But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
11 Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
12 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 being uprooted.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
- KJV
- But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
- WEB
- But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
- ASV
- But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
- DARBY
- But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.
- BLB
- But these indeed blaspheme whatever things they have not seen; and whatever things they understand naturally, as the irrational animals, in these things they corrupt themselves.
- ÅB
- Disse derimot spotter det de ikke kjenner; men det de av naturen skjønner, slik som de ufornuftige dyr, med det ødelegger de seg.
- OTB
- Likevel spotter disse menneskene hva de ikke forstår, og de tingene de forstår ved instinkt, som ufornuftige dyr, vil ødelegge dem.
- B1930
- Disse derimot spotter det de ikke kjenner; men det de av naturen skjønner, likesom de ufornuftige dyr, med det ødelegger de sig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Peter 2:12
These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
Read in contextRomans 1:21–22
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
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