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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,
Jude 1:24 · New American 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,
  • BSB Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great 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,
  • 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 deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Eph 3:20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
  • Col 1:22yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
  • John 10:29–30My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
  • Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
  • Eph 5:27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
  • 2 Cor 4:14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
  • Rom 16:25–27
  • Rev 14:5In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
  • Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
  • Rom 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
  • 1 Pet 4:13But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
  • 2 Cor 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
  • Ps 21:6For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
  • Rom 14:4Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.
  • Matt 5:12Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  • Jude 1:21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
  • Col 1:28whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
  • Luke 9:26For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
  • Ps 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
  • 1 Th 4:16–17For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
  • Col 3:4When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
  • Matt 25:31“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
  • Matt 19:28Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will 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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