1The apostle foretelleth the appearance of false teachers, the impiety of them and their followers, and the judgments that would overtake them. 7The godly shall be delivered, as Lot was out of Sodom. 10The wicked principles and manners of these seducers described. 20The mischief of relapsing into sin.
1BUT athere were false prophets also among the people, even as bthere shall be false teachers among you, who *privily shall bring in damnable cheresies, even ddenying the Lord ethat bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
*privily-secretly.
a De. 13.1-3. 1Ki. 18.19,22. Je. 14.14; 23.16,25,26. Eze. 13.3-6,16,17. Mi. 2.11. b Ac. 20.29,30. 2Co. 11.13. 1Ti. 4.1,2. 1Jn. 4.1. c Tit. 1.10. d Jude 4,18. De. 32.6. Phi. 3.19. v.3,9. Re. 6.10. e 1Co. 6.20. 1Pe. 1.18.
2fAnd many shall follow their 1pernicious ways; by reason of whom gthe way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
1Or, lascivious, as some copies read.
f Ac. 20.30. 1Ti. 3.1-6; 4.3,4. 2Th. 2.3. 1Jn. 2.18,19. Re. 11.2; 13.3,4,7; 17.2. Mat. 24.11,24. g Ac. 9.2; 19.9.
3And hthrough covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: iwhose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
h v.14. Eze. 13.19. Mi. 3.11. Lu. 22.47. Ro. 16.18. Tit. 1.11. 1Ti. 6.5. 1Th. 2.5. ch. 1.16. 2Co. 7.2; 12.14,17. 2Ti. 3.6. i v.1,9. Jude 4-7,19. De. 32.35.
4For if jGod spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
j Job 4.18. Lu. 8.31. Mat. 8.29. Jn. 8.44. 1Jn. 3.8. Jude 6. Re. 20.2,3,10. Mat. 25.41.
5And kspared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person , a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
k Ge. 2-8. Job 22.16. 1Pe. 3.19,20. He. 11.7. ch. 3.6. Jude 14,15.
6And lturning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an *ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
*ensample-example, model-from within a defined group or type.
l Ge. 19.24,25,28. De. 29.23. Is. 13.19. Je. 50.40. Eze. 16.49. Ho. 11.8. Is. 1.9. Am. 4.11. Zep. 2.9. Lu. 17.29. Jude 7. Nu. 26.10.
7And mdelivered just Lot, n*vexed with the filthy o*conversation of the wicked:
*vexed-troubled.
*conversation-behaviour.
m Ge. 19.10,15,16,22,24. Job 5.19. Ps. 34.19. 1Co. 10.13. n Ge. 13.13; 19.7,8. Je. 9.1-6; 23.9. Eze. 8.17; 9.4. Ps. 120.5; 55.5,10,11; 119.136,139,158. o Ga. 1.13.
8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, p*vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
*vexed-troubled.
p Ps. 119.53,136,158.
9qThe Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to rreserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
q 1Co. 10.13. Job 5.19. Ps. 34.15-19. r Jude 14,15. Job 21.30. Pr. 16.4. v.4. De. 32.43.
10sBut chiefly them tthat walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise 2government. Presumptuous are they , selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2Or, dominion.
s He. 13.4. Jude 4,7,8,10,16. 1Th. 2.15. Tit. 1.7. t ch. 3.3.
11uWhereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not *railing accusation 3against them before the Lord.
*railing-abusive.
3Some read against themselves.
u Ps. 103.20; 104.4. Jude 9. Da. 6.22.
12But these, vas natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish win their own corruption;
v Jude 10. Ps. 94.8. Je. 12.3; 10.21. ch. 3.3,4. Mat. 22.29. Is. 27.11; 3.11. w v.19,22. Pr. 14.32. ch. 1.4. Jn. 8.21. Is. 66.4. Je. 2.19.
13xAnd shall receive ythe reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure zto *riot in the day time. aSpots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
*riot-live self-indulgently.
x Phi. 3.19. Ro. 2.8,9. Re. 18.7. y Ac. 1.18. v.15. z Jude 12,19. Ro. 13.13; 16.18. 1Co. 11.20,21. 1Th. 5.7. 2Ti. 3.6. a Ep. 5.27.
14bHaving eyes full of 4adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
4Gr. an adulteress.
b Je. 5.8. Mat. 5.28. Jude 4,8,11,18. Mi. 3.11. ch. 3.3. 2Ti. 3.6.
15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of cBalaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
c Nu. 22.5,7,18,22; 23.3,12,26; 24.1; 25.1,2. Jude 12. Re. 2.14. Ac. 1.18. 1Ti. 6.10.
16dBut was rebuked for his iniquity: ethe dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
d Nu. 22.22-33. e Nu. 22.21,23,28.
17fThese are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom gthe mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
f Jude 12,13. Ep. 4.14. Ja. 1.6. v.3,9,13. g v.4. Job 20.26. Mat. 22.13; 8.12; 25.30. Jude 6,13.
18For hwhen they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were 5clean iescaped from them who live in error.
5Or, for a little, or, a while, as some read.
h Ps. 73.8. Jude 16. v.10,19. 1Pe. 2.11. 2Ti. 2.22. 2Co. 7.1. Tit. 2.12. i Ac. 2.40. ch. 1.4. v.20. Mat. 13.20,21.
19While they promise them jliberty, they themselves are kthe servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
j Ga. 5.13. 1Pe. 2.16. Jude 4. k Jn. 8.34. Ro. 6.16,20. Jude 19.
20For lif after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
l Mat. 12.43-45. Lu. 11.24-26. He. 6.4-8; 10.26,27,38. Ps. 125.5. ch. 1.2,4.
21mFor it had been better for them not to have known the nway of righteousness, than, after they have known it , to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
m Mat. 11.23,24. Lu. 12.47,48. Jn. 9.41; 15.22. n Pr. 12.28.
22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, oThe dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
o Pr. 26.11. Mat. 12.43-45. Lu. 11.24-26. He. 6.4-8; 10.26,27,38.