Jude 8-10
1599 Geneva Bible
8 Likewise notwithstanding these [a]sleepers also defile the flesh, [b]and despise [c]government, and speak evil of them that are in authority.
9 [d]Yet Michael the Archangel, when he strove against the devil, and disputed about the body of Moses, durst not blame him with cursed speaking, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 [e]But these speak evil of those things, which they know not: and whatsoever things they know naturally as beasts, which are without reason, in those things they corrupt themselves.
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- Jude 1:8 Which are so blockish and void of reason as if all their senses and wits were in a most dead sleep.
- Jude 1:8 Another most pernicious doctrine of theirs, in that they take away the authority of Magistrates, and speak evil of them, as at this day the Anabaptists do.
- Jude 1:8 It is a greater matter to despise government, than the governors, that is to say, the matter itself, than the persons.
- Jude 1:9 An argument of comparison, Michael one of the chiefest Angels, was content to deliver Satan, although as most cursed enemy, to the judgment of God to be punished: and these perverse men are not ashamed to speak evil of the powers which are ordained of God.
- Jude 1:10 The conclusion.These men are in a double fault, to wit, both for their rash folly in condemning some, and for their impudent and shameless contempt of that knowledge, which when they had gotten, yet notwithstanding they lived as brute beasts, serving their bellies.
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