Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
- KJV Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
- BSB Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
- 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 your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
- 2 Pet 2:10–12but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
- 1 Tim 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
- 1 Pet 2:17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
- Exod 22:28“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
- Num 16:3They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”
- Eccl 10:20Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.
- 1 Cor 3:17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
- Jude 1:9–10But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
- Acts 23:5Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
- Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
- Ps 2:1–6Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Prov 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
- Acts 7:39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
- Acts 7:27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
- 1 Th 4:8Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
- Prov 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
- Ps 12:3–4May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
- Jer 38:25–28But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you;’
- Num 16:12–13Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!
- Gen 3:5for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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