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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)They are like wild waves of the sea, churning up the foam of their shameful deeds. They are like wandering stars, doomed forever to blackest darkness.

Context of Jude 1:13

11Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion. 12These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. 14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words 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 65:7who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
• Psalms 93:3The seas have lifted up, Lord, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
• Isaiah 57:20But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
• Jeremiah 5:22Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
• Philippians 3:19Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
• 2 Timothy 3:13while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Revelation 8:10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—
• 2 Peter 2:17These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
• Revelation 14:10they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
• Revelation 20:10And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Revelation 21:8But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This 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