Jude 1:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, ”

• Jude 1:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith - Compare the notes at Jude 1:3 . On the word “building,” see the 1 Corinthians 3:9-10 notes; Ephesians 2:20 note. It is said...

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• Jude 1:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  These false brethren make divisions among you, but do you build up yourselves by means of your most holy faith. As regards them, show mercy towards those who are in doubt; save others, snatching them...

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• Jude 1:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  building up. See Acts 20:32 . faith App-150.; i.e. the object of faith Compare 1 Corinthians 3:11 . praying . App-134. Holy Ghost . holy spirit. App-101.

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• Jude 1:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  20. But ye, beloved. He shews the manner in which they could overcome all the devices of Satan, that is, by having love connected with faith, and by standing on their guard as it were in thei...

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• Jude 1:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Building up yourselves - Having the most holy faith - the Gospel of our Lord Jesus, and the writings of his...

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• Jude 1:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But ye, beloved, &c.— The false teachers corrupted the faith, turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, and would have made parties, tearing in pieces the church of God. The Christians, th...

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• Jude 1:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Resuming Jude 1:17 . Building up yourselves - opposite to "separate themselves" ( Jude 1:19 );...

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• Jude 1:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (20, 21) Exhortation to strengthen themselves in the faith by prayer, godliness, and hope. (20) But ye, beloved. — Exactly as in Jude 1:17 : “ye” in emphatic contrast to these sensuous and unspir...

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• Jude 1:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 37 THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO KORAH; MAKING SEPARATIONS-EXHORTATION TO THE FAITHFUL TO BUILD UP THEMSELVES, AND THEN RESCUE OTHERS. Jude 1:19-23 . FOR the third and last time St....

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• Jude 1:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Beware of the Touch of the Ungodly Jude 1:12-25 What traps and pitfalls beset us! How many have fallen who had as good or a better chance than we! The angels kept not their first estate; Adam,...

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• Jude 1:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chap...

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• Jude 1:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But ye, beloved ,.... Judges 1:17 ; building up yourselves on your most holy faith ; some copies, and the Complutensian edition, read, "our most holy faith"; meaning the doctrine of faith in all...

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• Jude 1:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But ye, beloved Not separating yourselves from your Christian brethren, but building up Or edifying one another in knowledge and grace; on , or in, your most holy faith The true Christian fait...

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• Jude 1:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exhortation to the Faithful; Conclusion. A. D.  66.       15 To execute judgment upon all, and to c...

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• Jude 1:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Building up yourselves; he compares them to a house, which is to be built up, whereof faith is the foundation: the same metaphor is used, 1 Corinthians 4:9 Ephesians 2:20-22 1 Peter 2:5 ....

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• Jude 1:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Having Exposed The Ungodly Jude Now Turns To The Godly And Seeks To Encourage Them And Give Them Guidance ( Jude 1:17-21 ). He first reminds God's true people that what is happening is in full acc...

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• Jude 1:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Jude 1:20 .—This gives positive teaching. It answers the question, What can sincere and earnest believers do to guard themselves from the insidious influence of evil...

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• Jude 1:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Jude 1:20 I. Prayer is the Divinely appointed means of obtaining all the promised blessings needful for our spiritual and eternal welfare. This truth is quite clear to the student of Scripture. Th...

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• Jude 1:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is...

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• Jude 1:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An admonition to holy steadfastness:

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• Jude 1:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 1:8 ; 1 Corinthians 10:23 ; 1 Corinthians 14:15 ; 1 Corinthians 14:26 ; 1 Corinthians 14:4 ; 1 Corinthians 14:5 ; 1 John 5:4 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:11 ; 1 Timothy 1:4 ; 2 Peter 1...

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• Jude 1:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  But ye, beloved, not separating, but building yourselves up in your most holy faith — Than which none can be more holy in itself, or more conducive to the most refined and exalted holiness. Praying...

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