Jude 1:15

Jude's citation of an Enochic prophecy — 'to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds' — is the NT's most direct quotation from 1 Enoch 1:9, a Jewish apocalyptic text from the third-second century BCE. The fourfold 'all' (pantes, panta, pasas, pasin) creates an emphatic universality: the judgment comprehends every person and every deed without exception. Jude's use of 1 Enoch raises canonical questions: the letter cites the text as prophecy without claiming canonical status for the book, consistent with the practice of citing non-canonical wisdom literature for specific purposes. The verse's function in Jude's argument is to establish that the judgment of false teachers within the community participates in the same cosmic eschatological reckoning that the Enochic tradition anticipated — their condemnation is not arbitrary but part of a comprehensive divine moral accounting.