Jude 1:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. ”

• Jude 1:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Keep yourselves in the love of God - Still adverting to their own agency. On the duty here enjoined, see the notes at John 15:9 . The phrase “the love of God” may mean either God’s love to us, o...

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• Jude 1:21 - 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 1:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the love of God . God's love to you, i.e. the assurance of it, basedon His Word. looking for . Greek. prosdechomai. See Acts 23:21 . life . App-170.

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• Jude 1:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  21. Keep yourselves in the love of God. He has made love as it were the guardian and the ruler of our life; not that he might set it in opposition to the grace of God, but that it is the rig...

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• Jude 1:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Keep yourselves in the love of God - By building up yourselves on your most holy faith, and prayi...

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• Jude 1:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Keep yourselves in the love of God,— The word 'Εαυτους is put for αλληλου, one another, both here and in Jude 1:20 . See 1 Thessalonians 5:11 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:13 . The meaningand connection...

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• Jude 1:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. In Jude 1:20-21 , Jude combines the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: faith, hope, and love....

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• Jude 1:21 - 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 1:21 - 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 1:21 - 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 1:21 - 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 1:21 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  IN THE LOVE OF GOD ‘Keep yourselves in the love of God.’ Jude 1:21 There are many places and relationships in our human life in which it is honourable and a privilege to be—how suggestive to...

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• Jude 1:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Keep yourselves in the love of God ,.... By which may be meant either the grace and favour of God, that love with which God loves his people; and then the exhortation to the saints to keep themselve...

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• Jude 1:21 - 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 1:21 - 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 1:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Keep yourselves in the love of God; i.e. in love to God, or that love whereby ye love God; this implies love to each other, as the cause doth the effect. Looking for; viz. by hope: and so in th...

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• Jude 1:21 - 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 1:21 - 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 1:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Jude 1:21 A Christmas Morning Talk with Children. I. Love is a fire that wants a great deal of keeping. "Keep yourselves in the love of God." When I am writing in my study sometimes, what do you...

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• Jude 1:21 - 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 1:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An admonition to holy steadfastness:

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• Jude 1:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:16 ; 1 John 3:17 ; 1 John 4:16 ; 1 John 5:10 ; 1 John 5:11 ; 1 John 5:18 ; 1 John 5:21 ; 1 Timothy 1:2 ; 2 Peter 3:12 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:5 ; 2 Timothy 1:16 ; 2 Timothy 1:18 ; 2...

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• Jude 1:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  By these means, through his grace, keep yourselves in the love of God, and in the confident expectation of that eternal life which is purchased for you, and conferred upon you, through the mere mer...

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