Jude 1:13

Jude 1:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
• New International Version (NIV)They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
• English Standard Version (ESV)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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

Context of Jude 1:13

11Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion. 12These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit – twice dead, uprooted; wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved. 14Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones, 15to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Jude 1:13 word by word

κύματα ἄγρια θαλάσσης ἐπαφρίζοντα τὰς ἑαυτῶν αἰσχύνας, ἀστέρες πλανῆται οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους εἰς αἰῶνα τετήρηται.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ragingἄγριοςagrios · wildG66
• wavesκῦμαkuma · a waveG2949
• of the seaθάλασσαthalassa · seaG2281
• foaming outἐπαφρίζωepaphrizō · to foam upG1890
• their ownἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438
• shameαἰσχύνηaischunē · shameG152
• wanderingπλανήτηςplanētēs · wanderingG4107
• starsἀστήρastēr · starG792
• to whomὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• is reservedτηρέωtēreō · to keep: guardG5083
• blacknessὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• blacknessζόφοςzophos · darknessG2217
• of darknessσκότοςskotos · darknessG4655
• forεἰςeis · towardG1519
• everαἰώνaiōn · an age: eternityG165

Cross-references for Jude 1:13

• Psalms 65:7You calm the raging seas and their roaring waves, as well as the commotion made by the nations.
• Psalms 93:3The waves roar, O Lord, the waves roar, the waves roar and crash.
• Isaiah 57:20But the wicked are like a surging sea that is unable to be quiet; its waves toss up mud and sand.
• Jeremiah 5:22“You should fear me!” says the Lord. “You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
• Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
• 2 Timothy 3:13But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
• Revelation 8:10Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; it landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
• 2 Peter 2:17These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.
• Revelation 14:10that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.
• Revelation 20:10And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are too, and they will be tormented there day and night forever and ever.
• Revelation 21:8But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”

Commentaries on Jude 1:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame - The same metaphor as in Isaiah 57:20; : The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. These are like the sea in a storm, where the swells are like mountains; the breakers lash the shore, and sound like thunder; and the great deep, stirred up from its very bottom, rolls its muddy, putrid sediment, and deposits it upon the beach. Such were those proud and…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Raging waves of the sea - Compare 2 Peter 2:18. They are like the wild and restless waves of the ocean. The image here seems to be, that they were noisy and bold in their professions, and were as wild and ungovernable in their passions as the billows of the sea. Foaming out their own shame - The waves are lashed into foam, and break and dash on the shore. They seem to produce nothing but foam, and to proclaim their own shame, that after all their wild…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-16Verses 8-16 False teachers are dreamers; they greatly defile and grievously wound the soul. These teachers are of a disturbed mind and a seditious spirit; forgetting that the powers that be, are ordained of God, Ro 13:1. As to the contest about the body of Moses, it appears that Satan wished to make the place of his burial known to the Israelites, in order to tempt them to worship him, but he was prevented, and vented his rage in desperate blasphemy. This…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13People once thought planets were wandering stars because they moved in irregular patterns across the sky. Similarly, false teachers wandered (by teaching things that were not true), and God condemned their actions.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Raging--wild. Jude has in mind Is 57:20. shame--plural in Greek, "shames" (compare Php 3:19). wandering stars--instead of moving on in a regular orbit, as lights to the world, bursting forth on the world like erratic comets, or rather, meteors of fire, with a strange glare, and then doomed to fall back again into the blackness of gloom.Read the comment

Topics related to Jude 1:13

• Anarchy
• Astronomy
• Blackness
• Colors
• Hell
• Heresy
• Hypocrisy
• Reprobacy
• Stars
• Wicked (People)
• Word of God
• Worldliness
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

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• Jude, the Epistle of
• Peter, the Second Epistle of
• Shame
• Jude, Epistle of

Commentaries on Jude 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings