Jude 1:18

Jude 1:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
• New International Version (NIV)They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)They said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."
• New King James Version (NKJV)how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.

Context of Jude 1:18

16These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want. 17But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ predicted. They told you that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to satisfy their ungodly desires. 19These people are the ones who are creating divisions among you. They follow their natural instincts because they do not have God’s Spirit in them. 20But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit,

Jude 1:18 word by word

ὅτι ἔλεγον ὑμῖν ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτου χρόνου ἔσονται ἐμπαῖκται κατὰ τὰς ἑαυτῶν ἐπιθυμίας πορευόμενοι τῶν ἀσεβειῶν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• How thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• they toldλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• youσύsu · youG4771
• there should beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• mockersἐμπαίκτηςempaiktēs · a mockerG1703
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• theχρόνοςchronos · timeG5550
• lastἔσχατοςeschatos · last/leastG2078
• who should walkπορεύωporeuomai · to travelG4198
• afterκατάkata · according toG2596
• their ownἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438
• ungodlyὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• ungodlyἀσέβειαasebeia · ungodlinessnessG763
• lustsἐπιθυμίαepithumia · desireG1939

Cross-references for Jude 1:18

• Acts 20:29I know that false teachers, like vicious wolves, will come in among you after I leave, not sparing the flock.
• 1 Timothy 4:1Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith; they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons.
• 2 Timothy 3:1You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times.
• 2 Timothy 4:3For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.
• 2 Peter 2:1But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them. In this way, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves.
• 2 Peter 3:3Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires.
• Jude 1:16These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.
• Psalms 14:1Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!

Commentaries on Jude 1:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Mockers in the last time - See the notes on 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1; (note), etc.; and particularly 2 Peter 3:2, 2 Peter 3:3; (note), etc., to which Jude seems to refer. The last time. - The conclusion of the Jewish polity.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-23Verses 17-23 Sensual men separate from Christ, and his church, and join themselves to the devil, the world, and the flesh, by ungodly and sinful practices. That is infinitely worse than to separate from any branch of the visible church on account of opinions, or modes and circumstances of outward government or worship. Sensual men have not the spirit of holiness, which whoever has not, does not belong to Christ. The grace of faith is most holy, as it…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18In the last times: Jesus coming as the Messiah (God's chosen one) started the final part of God's plan. This is when Old Testament prophecies about the last days began to happen. Because of this, Jude uses the apostles' prophecy about the last times to address the current crisis caused by false teachers (1:19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. mockers--In the parallel, 2Pe 3:3, the same Greek is translated, "scoffers." The word is found nowhere else in the New Testament. How Alford can deny that 2Pe 3:2, 3 is referred to (at least in part), I cannot imagine, seeing that Jude quotes the very words of Peter as the words which the apostles used to speak to his (Jude's) readers. walk after their own ungodly lusts--literally, "after (according to) their own lusts of ungodliness."Read the comment

Topics related to Jude 1:18

• Hell
• Infidelity
• Lust
• Prophecy
• Sensuality
• Zeal, Religious

In the dictionaries

• Day, Last
• Eschatology of the New Testament
• Jude, the Epistle of
• Last Time, Times
• Lust
• Mock; Mocker; Mocking
• Parousia
• Jude, Epistle of
• apostle, apostleship

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