Jude 1:7

5 Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

6 And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

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.

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!”

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.

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BSB
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.
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.
WEB
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
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.
DARBY
as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.
BLB
as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner to these having indulged in sexual immorality and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the penalty of eternal fire.
ÅB
slik som Sodoma og Gomorra og byene deromkring, som på samme måte som disse drev hor og gikk etter fremmed kjød, ligger for våre øyne som et eksempel, idet de lider en evig ilds straff.
OTB
Akkurat som Sodoma og Gomorra og de omkringliggende byene hengav seg til seksuell umoral og jaget etter fremmed kjøtt, tjener de som et eksempel ved å gjennomgå straffen av evig ild.
B1930
likesom Sodoma og Gomorra og byene deromkring, som på samme måte som disse drev hor og gikk efter fremmed kjød, ligger for våre øine som et eksempel, idet de lider en evig ilds straff.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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 LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

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  • Romans 1:26–27

    For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

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  • 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;

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  • Genesis 18:20

    Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

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  • Genesis 19:24–26

    Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

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  • Genesis 13:13

    But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

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  • Jeremiah 50:40

    As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:9

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

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