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Jude

The Epistles of Jude 

Block Diagrammed

One of the pressing needs of any serious student of Scripture is an understanding of the syntax of a given passage.  Syntax refers to the interrelationships of paragraphs, sentences, phrases, clauses, and words.  The purpose of Block Diagramming is to graphically illustrate the syntax of a passage of Scripture. The Block Diagramming process involves the laying out of a passage of Scripture by indenting subordinate linguistic units while maintaining the word order of the given text or translation.  This allows the student of Scripture to determine the Divinely-inspired structure of the passage, it’s key features, and main points, so as to enhance the study and understanding of God’s Word.

Ronald Jay Frasco

 

Scripture taken from

the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE (R), (C)

Copyright The Lockman Foundation

1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977

Used by permission.

Jude

1:1

 Jude,

 a bond-servant of Jesus Christ,

 and brother of James,

 to those who are the called,

 beloved in God the Father,

 and kept for Jesus Christ:

:2  May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

:3   Beloved,

  while I was making every effort to write you about our common

  salvation,

 I felt the necessity to write to you

  appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith

   which was once for all delivered to the saints.

:4    For certain persons have crept in unnoticed,

    those who were long beforehand marked out for this

    condemnation,

    ungodly persons

     who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness

     and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

:5   Now I desire to remind you,

  though you know all things once for all,

 that the Lord,

  after saving a people out of the land of Egypt,

 subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

:6  And angels

  who did not keep their own domain,

  but abandoned their proper abode,

 He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great

 day.

:7  Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them,

  since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality

  and went after strange flesh,

 are exhibited as an example, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

:8  Yet in the same manner these men, also by dreaming,

  defile the flesh,

  and reject authority,

  and revile angelic majesties.

:9  But Michael the archangel,

  when he disputed with the devil

  and argued about the body of Moses,

 did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment,

 but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

:10 But these men revile the things which they do not understand;

 and the things which they know by instinct,

  like unreasoning animals,

 by these things they are destroyed.

:11 Woe to them!

  For they have gone the way of Cain,

  and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam,

  and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

:12 These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feasts

  when they feast with you without fear,

  caring for themselves;

  clouds without water,

  carried along by winds;

  autumn trees without fruit,

  doubly dead,

  uprooted;

:13  wild waves of the sea,

  casting up their own shame like foam;

  wandering stars,

   for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

:14 And about these also Enoch,

  in the seventh generation from Adam,

 prophesied, saying,

  “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,

:15   to execute judgment upon all,

   and to convict all the ungodly

   of all their ungodly deeds

    which they have done in an ungodly way,

   and of all the harsh things

    which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him. “

:16 These are grumblers,

  finding fault,

  following after their own lusts;

  they speak arrogantly,

   flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

:17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken

 beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

:18 that they were saying to you,

  “In the last time there shall be mockers,

   following after their own ungodly lusts.”

:19 These are the ones who cause divisions,

 worldly-minded,

 devoid of the Spirit.

:20 But you,

 beloved,

  building yourselves up on your most holy faith;

  praying in the Holy Spirit;

:21 keep yourselves in the love of God,

  waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal  life. 

:22 And have mercy on some,

  who are doubting;

:23 save others,

  snatching them out of the fire;

 and on some have mercy with fear,

  hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

:24  Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,

 and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great

 joy,

:25 to the only God our Savior,

  through Jesus Christ our Lord,

 be glory, majesty, dominion and authority,

 before all time and now and forever. Amen.