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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:20

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith - Compare the notes at Jude 1:3. On the word “building,” see the 1 Corinthians 3:9-10 notes; Ephesians 2:20 note. It is said here that they were to “build up themselves;” that is, they were to act as moral and responsible agents in this, or were to put forth their own proper exertions to do it. Dependent, as we are, and as all persons with correct views will feel themselves to be, yet it is proper to endeavor to do the work of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jude 1:20-21

Judges 1:20-21. But ye, beloved Not separating yourselves from your Christian brethren, but building up Or edifying one another in knowledge and grace; on, or in, your most holy faith The true Christian faith, having for its object all the doctrines, precepts, and promises of the gospel; a faith, than which none can be more holy in itself, or more conducive to the most refined and exalted holiness; praying in, or through, the Holy Ghost By a principle of grace derived from him,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jude 1:17-25

Encouragement to Christians (17-25)The Christians are reminded of the words of the apostles. Years earlier they had warned that ungodly teachers would trouble the church, leading people into sin and causing divisions (17-19). The way to avoid their evil influence is to learn more of the Christian truth, to be more sincere in prayer, to grow in devotion to God, to hate sin in all its forms, and to help those affected by the false teachers to find new life in God (20-23).Jude closes his letter on... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jude 1:20

building up. See Acts 20:32 . faith App-150 .; i.e. the object of faith Compare 1 Corinthians 3:11 . praying . App-134 . Holy Ghost = holy spirit. App-101 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jude 1:20

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,Building up yourselves ... If we followed the pattern in works of this kind, three or four pages should be inserted here explaining how "there is not anything you can do to be saved," "it is all of grace, and none of works," "no man can be his own Saviour," etc., etc. While such views certainly have a kernel of truth in them, provided it is properly understood, this is certainly the wrong place to rally... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jude 1:20

Jude 1:20. But ye, beloved, &c.— The false teachers corrupted the faith, turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, and would have made parties, tearing in pieces the church of God. The Christians, therefore, both here and Jude 1:3; Jud 1:17 are exhorted to preserve one another through divine grace in that true, pure, unmixed faith, as it was taught them by the apostles of our Lord. Their faith was called most holy, as it did not lead to licentiousness, like the corrupt doctrine of the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jude 1:20

Resuming :-.building up yourselves — the opposite to the “separate themselves” ( :-): as “in the Holy Ghost” is opposed to “having not the Spirit.”on — as on a foundation. Building on THE FAITH is equivalent to building on Christ, the object of faith.praying in the Holy Ghost — ( :-; :-). The Holy Spirit teaches what we are to pray for, and how. None can pray aright save by being in the Spirit, that is, in the element of His influence. Chrysostom states that, among the charisms bestowed at... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jude 1:20

The contrast Jude introduced with "But" distinguishes Jude’s readers from the false teachers. Since we are God’s temples under attack by hostile enemy forces, we need to build ourselves up, to strengthen ourselves spiritually (cf. 1 Corinthians 3:9-17; Ephesians 2:20-22; 2 Peter 3:18)."The best thing believers can do to withstand the malady is to develop their spiritual immunological resources." [Note: A. Duane Litfin, "A Biblical Strategy for Confronting the Cults," Bibliotheca Sacra 135:539... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jude 1:20-23

B. The Positive Instruction of the Readers VV. 20-23 read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jude 1:20-21

(20, 21) Exhortation to strengthen themselves in the faith by prayer, godliness, and hope.(20) But ye, beloved.—Exactly as in Jude 1:17 : “ye” in emphatic contrast to these sensuous and unspiritual men.Building up yourselves.—Making yourselves firm on the sure foundation of faith, in contradistinction to those “who separate,” and fancy themselves firm in their impious conceits. The notion is not so much that of increasing and completing an edifice as of strengthening its foundations. Faith and... read more