Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
- BSB Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
- NKJV Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.
- NASB Yet in the same way these people also, dreaming, defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak abusively of angelic majesties.
- NLT In the same way, these people—who claim authority from their dreams—live immoral lives, defy authority, and scoff at supernatural beings.
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Quick answer
In the same way these false teachers pollute their bodies, reject authority, and slander angelic beings.
Overview
Jude applies the three examples directly to the false teachers, who are likened to those judged before them. Their dreamlike self-deception leads to three sins: defiling the flesh through immorality, rejecting God-given authority, and arrogantly speaking against spiritual powers. Their conduct reveals a heart in rebellion against God's order at every level.
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 13:17Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
- 2 Pet 2:10–12But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
- 1 Tim 1:10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
- 1 Pet 2:17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
- Exod 22:28Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
- Num 16:3And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
- Eccl 10:20Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
- 1 Cor 3:17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
- Jude 1:9–10Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
- Acts 23:5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
- Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
- Ps 2:1–6Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Prov 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
- Acts 7:39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
- Acts 7:27But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
- 1 Th 4:8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
- Prov 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
- Ps 12:3–4The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
- Jer 38:25–28But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
- Num 16:12–13And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
- Gen 3:5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
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