Judas 1:4
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Studiennotiz
Study Note
Jude's alert — 'certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ' — introduces one of the sharpest portraits of antinomian distortion in the New Testament. The 'perversion of grace into sensuality' (aselgeia — licentiousness, unbounded indulgence) names a specific theological error: treating divine forgiveness as license for ethical abandonment rather than as power for transformed living. The phrase 'designated for this condemnation' (progegrammenoi eis touto to krima) raises predestinarian questions but more likely refers to the types previously written about in scripture — the Israelites in the wilderness, Sodom, and the fallen angels of verses 5-7. The verse addresses a perennial threat to the church: the theological sophistication that separates salvation from sanctification.
Andere Übersetzungen
For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,
For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Querverweise
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, …
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast …
Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose …
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, …
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another …