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 are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. 17But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19These are they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying by 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

• Howὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• toldλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• youὑμῖνhumin · to youG5213
• beἔσομαιesomai · will beG2071
• mockersἐμπαίκτηςempaiktēs · a mockerG1703
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• lastἔσχατοςeschatos · last/leastG2078
• timeχρόνοςchronos · timeG5550
• walkπορεύωporeuomai · to travelG4198
• afterκατάkata · according toG2596
• ownἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438
• ungodlyἀσέβειαasebeia · ungodlinessnessG763
• lustsἐπιθυμίαepithumia · desireG1939

Cross-references for Jude 1:18

• Acts 20:29For I know this, that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
• 1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons;
• 2 Timothy 3:1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
• 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap up to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• 2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
• 2 Peter 3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• Psalms 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth 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