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Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
Jude 1:24 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
  • KJV Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
  • NKJV Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
  • NASB Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless with great joy,
  • NLT Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault.

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Quick answer

Jude praises God as the one able to keep believers from stumbling and present them blameless and joyful before His glory.

Overview

After all the warnings, Jude lifts his readers' eyes to God in a doxology of confident praise. God Himself is able to guard His people from falling and to bring them faultless into His glorious presence with great joy. This assurance rests on Christ, whose saving work alone makes sinners blameless, completing the letter's theme that believers are kept by God from beginning to end.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 25

  • 2 Tim 4:18And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Eph 3:20Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
  • Col 1:22But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
  • John 10:29–30My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
  • Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
  • Eph 5:27and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
  • 2 Cor 4:14knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.
  • Rom 16:25–27Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
  • Rev 14:5And no lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
  • Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
  • Rom 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • 2 Cor 4:17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
  • 1 Pet 4:13But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.
  • 2 Cor 11:2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Ps 21:6For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
  • Rom 14:4Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
  • Matt 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
  • Jude 1:21keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
  • Col 1:28We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
  • Luke 9:26If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
  • Ps 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
  • 1 Th 4:16–17For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
  • Col 3:4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
  • Matt 25:31When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.
  • Matt 19:28Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Commentaries & study tools

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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Christ at the center

Christ is the one who keeps his people from stumbling and presents them blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy — the object of contending faith.

How Jude 1:24 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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