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v. 16 – These are grumblers, Devotional: Without fail, our words always reveal what is going on inside us. Jesus says that “Out of the heart, the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). And James, the...

v. 14 cont’d – “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed...

v. 14 – It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, Devotional: Enoch would be a very familiar name to Jews in the first century. He was father to Methuselah and the Bible...

v. 13 – wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever. Devotional: Have you ever watched a star...

v. 12 – these are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves, waterless clouds, swept along by the wind, fruitless trees in late autumn,...

v. 11b – ….and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. Devotional: Jude connects 3 events in verse 11, the way of Cain (Gen 4),...

v. 11 – Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain… Devotional: Cain really made a mess of things. What was in his heart made itself clear when he killed his brother. And years later,...

v. 10 – But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. Devotional: Jude continues his...

v. 9 – But when Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” Devotional: What...

v. 8 – Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. Devotional: Each of us, at different times in our lives,...