Jude 1:20
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Study Note
Study Note
'But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost' — the positive counter-program of Jude's closing exhortation (verses 20–23) answers the epistle's extended description of false teachers with a constructive pneumatological spirituality. The phrase 'praying in the Holy Spirit' (en pneumati hagiō) is paralleled in Ephesians 6:18 and connects to Romans 8:26 ('the Spirit himself intercedes for us'), grounding authentic prayer in Spirit-dependence rather than mere human religious effort. The threefold keeping-structure — keep yourself in God's love (verse 21), mercy of Jesus toward eternal life, mercy toward the doubting (verse 22) — creates a communal ethics of grace-extension modeled on the eschatological mercy the believers themselves await.
Other Translations
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,
But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,
Cross References
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