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God has kept them securely chained in prisons of darkness, waiting for the great day of judgment. <a href="/esv/jude/1.htm">English Standard Version</a> And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— <a href="/bsb/jude/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. <a href="/blb/jude/1.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And the angels not having kept their own domain, but having abandoned the own dwelling, He keeps in eternal chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day; <a href="/kjv/jude/1.htm">King James Bible</a> And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. <a href="/nkjv/jude/1.htm">New King James Version</a> And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; <a href="/nasb_/jude/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> And angels who did not keep their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling place, these He has kept in eternal restraints under darkness for the judgment of the great day, <a href="/nasb/jude/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> 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, <a href="/nasb77/jude/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> 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. <a href="/lsb/jude/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> 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, <a href="/amp/jude/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> And angels who did not keep their own designated place of power, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, [these] He has kept in eternal chains under [the thick gloom of utter] darkness for the judgment of the great day, <a href="/csb/jude/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> and the angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day. <a href="/hcsb/jude/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling. <a href="/asv/jude/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. <a href="/cev/jude/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> You also know about the angels who didn't do their work and left their proper places. God chained them with everlasting chains and is now keeping them in dark pits until the great day of judgment. <a href="/erv/jude/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> And angels which kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. <a href="/gwt/jude/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> He held angels for judgment on the great day. They were held in darkness, bound by eternal chains. These are the angels who didn't keep their position of authority but abandoned their assigned place. <a href="/gnt/jude/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> Remember the angels who did not stay within the limits of their proper authority, but abandoned their own dwelling place: they are bound with eternal chains in the darkness below, where God is keeping them for that great Day on which they will be condemned. <a href="/isv/jude/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day. <a href="/msb/jude/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling?these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. <a href="/net/jude/1.htm">NET Bible</a> You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day. <a href="/nheb/jude/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Angels who did not keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. <a href="/wbt/jude/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And the angels who kept not their first state, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day. <a href="/wey/jude/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day. <a href="/web/jude/1.htm">World English Bible</a> Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jude/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but left their proper dwelling, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness until [the] judgment of [the] great day, <a href="/blb/jude/1.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And the angels not having kept their own domain, but having abandoned the own dwelling, He keeps in eternal chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day; <a href="/ylt/jude/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept, <a href="/slt/jude/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Also the angels not having kept their beginning, but having left their own habitation, he has kept in perpetual chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jude/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And the angels who kept not their principality, but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day. <a href="/cpdv/jude/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And truly, the Angels, who did not keep to their first place, but instead abandoned their own domiciles, he has reserved with perpetual chains under darkness, unto the great day of judgment. <a href="/nabre/jude/1.htm">New American Bible</a> The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day. <a href="/nrsvce/jude/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jude/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And the angels that did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/jude/1.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> And those Angels who kept not their Principality, but abandoned their own way of life, he has kept to the great Day of Judgment in unseen chains under darkness,<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/jude/1.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> The angels also that kept not their own dominion, but left their proper habitation, he has reserved, in eternal chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day. <a href="/godbey/jude/1.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> and the angels who kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, has he kept in eternal chains unto darkness unto the judgment of the great day: <a href="/haweis/jude/1.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> And the angels who preserved not their own primitive state, but deserted their proper abode, hath he reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. <a href="/mace/jude/1.htm">Mace New Testament</a> and the angels which kept not their original dignity, but deserted their proper abode, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day. <a href="/wey/jude/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> And angels--those who did not keep the position originally assigned to them, but deserted their own proper abode--He reserves in everlasting bonds, in darkness, in preparation for the judgement of the great day. <a href="/worrell/jude/1.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> And angels who kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, He hath kept in everlasting bonds, under darkness, for the judgment of the great day. <a href="/worsley/jude/1.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> and the angels that kept not their primitive state, but left their proper abode, hath He reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness, to the judgement of the great day: <a href="/parallel/jude/1-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B4ISOUBwbKU?start=63" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jude/1.htm">God's Judgment on the Ungodly</a> …5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe. 6<a href="/greek/5037.htm" title="5037: te (Conj) -- And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also.">And</a> <a href="/greek/32.htm" title="32: angelous (N-AMP) -- From aggello; a messenger; especially an angel; by implication, a pastor.">the angels</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tous (Art-AMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">who</a> <a href="/greek/3361.htm" title="3361: mē (Adv) -- Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether."></a> <a href="/greek/5083.htm" title="5083: tērēsantas (V-APA-AMP) -- From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold.">did not stay within</a> <a href="/greek/1438.htm" title="1438: heautōn (RefPro-GM3P) -- Himself, herself, itself. ">their</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēn (Art-AFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">own</a> <a href="/greek/746.htm" title="746: archēn (N-AFS) -- From archomai; a commencement, or chief.">domain</a> <a href="/greek/235.htm" title="235: alla (Conj) -- But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.">but</a> <a href="/greek/620.htm" title="620: apolipontas (V-APA-AMP) -- From apo and leipo; to leave behind; by implication, to forsake.">abandoned</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: to (Art-ANS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">their</a> <a href="/greek/2398.htm" title="2398: idion (Adj-ANS) -- Pertaining to self, i.e. One's own; by implication, private or separate.">proper</a> <a href="/greek/3613.htm" title="3613: oikētērion (N-ANS) -- A dwelling-place, habitation, abode. Neuter of a presumed derivative of oikeo; a residence.">dwelling—</a> <a href="/greek/5083.htm" title="5083: tetērēken (V-RIA-3S) -- From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold.">these He has kept</a> <a href="/greek/126.htm" title="126: aidiois (Adj-DMP) -- Eternal, everlasting. From aei; everduring.">in eternal</a> <a href="/greek/1199.htm" title="1199: desmois (N-DMP) -- Or desmos des-mos' neuter and masculine respectively from deo; a band, i.e. Ligament or shackle; figuratively, an impediment or disability.">chains</a> <a href="/greek/5259.htm" title="5259: hypo (Prep) -- A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).">under</a> <a href="/greek/2217.htm" title="2217: zophon (N-AMS) -- Darkness, murkiness, gloom. Akin to the base of nephos; gloom.">darkness,</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.">bound for</a> <a href="/greek/2920.htm" title="2920: krisin (N-AFS) -- Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice.">judgment</a> <a href="/greek/3173.htm" title="3173: megalēs (Adj-GFS) -- Large, great, in the widest sense. ">on that great</a> <a href="/greek/2250.htm" title="2250: hēmeras (N-GFS) -- A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. ">day.</a> 7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4</a> For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; <a href="/genesis/6-1.htm">Genesis 6:1-4</a> Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, / the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose. / So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.” ... <a href="/revelation/12-7.htm">Revelation 12:7-9</a> Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. / But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels. / And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. <a href="/1_peter/3-19.htm">1 Peter 3:19-20</a> in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison / who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. <a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a> Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. <a href="/1_corinthians/6-3.htm">1 Corinthians 6:3</a> Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! <a href="/revelation/20-10.htm">Revelation 20:10</a> And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. <a href="/hebrews/2-2.htm">Hebrews 2:2</a> For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment, <a href="/job/4-18.htm">Job 4:18</a> If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, <a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12-15</a> How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. / You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north. / I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” ... <a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">Ezekiel 28:12-17</a> “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. / You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation. / You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones. ... <a href="/daniel/10-13.htm">Daniel 10:13</a> However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia. <a href="/luke/10-18.htm">Luke 10:18</a> So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. <a href="/revelation/9-1.htm">Revelation 9:1-2</a> Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. / The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit. <a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm">2 Corinthians 11:14</a> And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day.angels.<a href="/john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a> Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.first estate.<a href="/ephesians/6-12.htm">Ephesians 6:12</a> For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.he hath.<a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a> Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:See on<a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4</a> For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;unto.<a href="/matthew/8-29.htm">Matthew 8:29</a> And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?<a href="/hebrews/10-27.htm">Hebrews 10:27</a> But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.<a href="/revelation/20-10.htm">Revelation 20:10</a> And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/james/4-5.htm">Abode</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-11.htm">Angels</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-5.htm">Assigned</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-10.htm">Authority</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-3.htm">Bonds</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">Chains</a> <a href="/1_john/2-11.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/1_john/2-11.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/2_timothy/4-16.htm">Deserted</a> <a href="/colossians/1-13.htm">Domain</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-8.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/james/1-9.htm">Estate</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-11.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/3_john/1-9.htm">First</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Gloom</a> <a href="/3_john/1-13.htm">Great</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-22.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/1_john/4-17.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/2_john/1-9.htm">Keeps</a> <a href="/jude/1-1.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-11.htm">Kingdom</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Nether</a> <a href="/1_john/2-8.htm">Night</a> <a href="/galatians/1-9.htm">Originally</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-17.htm">Position</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-2.htm">Positions</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-6.htm">Proper</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-7.htm">Reserved</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-20.htm">State</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-7.htm">Theirs</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/29-14.htm">Abode</a> <a href="/jude/1-9.htm">Angels</a> <a href="/revelation/12-14.htm">Assigned</a> <a href="/jude/1-8.htm">Authority</a> <a href="/numbers/30-5.htm">Bonds</a> <a href="/revelation/20-2.htm">Chains</a> <a href="/revelation/6-12.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/jude/1-13.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-18.htm">Deserted</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-20.htm">Domain</a> <a href="/revelation/11-10.htm">Dwelling</a> <a href="/genesis/15-2.htm">Estate</a> <a href="/revelation/14-6.htm">Everlasting</a> <a href="/revelation/1-5.htm">First</a> <a href="/jude/1-13.htm">Gloom</a> <a href="/jude/1-16.htm">Great</a> <a href="/revelation/18-2.htm">Habitation</a> <a href="/jude/1-15.htm">Judgment</a> <a href="/revelation/2-26.htm">Keeps</a> <a href="/jude/1-13.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/revelation/1-6.htm">Kingdom</a> <a href="/jude/1-13.htm">Nether</a> <a href="/jude/1-13.htm">Night</a> <a href="/acts/15-7.htm">Originally</a> <a href="/revelation/10-5.htm">Position</a> <a href="/joshua/10-31.htm">Positions</a> <a href="/genesis/2-23.htm">Proper</a> <a href="/jude/1-13.htm">Reserved</a> <a href="/genesis/43-7.htm">State</a> <a href="/revelation/22-14.htm">Theirs</a><div class="vheading2">Jude 1</div>1. <a href="/jude/1-1.htm">He exhorts them to be constant in the profession of the faith.</a> 4. <a href="/jude/1-4.htm">false teachers crept in to seduce them, for whose evil doctrine a horrible punishment is prepared;</a> 20. <a href="/jude/1-20.htm">whereas the godly may persevere, grow in grace, and keep the faith.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In biblical context, angels are created beings with specific duties and realms of authority. The reference here is often linked to <a href="/genesis/6.htm">Genesis 6:1-4</a>, where "sons of God" are interpreted by some as angels who left their heavenly domain to cohabit with human women. This act of rebellion is seen as a violation of God's established order. The concept of angels having specific domains is supported by passages like <a href="/daniel/10-13.htm">Daniel 10:13</a>, where angelic beings are assigned to particular nations or regions.but abandoned their proper dwelling The term "abandoned" suggests a willful departure from their designated place. This act of leaving their "proper dwelling" implies a rejection of God's authority and order. Theologically, this can be seen as a parallel to humanity's fall, where Adam and Eve abandoned their state of innocence. The angels' abandonment is a grave sin, reflecting a desire to operate outside of God's will. This rebellion is echoed in <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4</a>, which also speaks of angels who sinned and were cast into hell.these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness The imagery of "eternal chains" and "darkness" signifies a state of confinement and judgment. This is not a physical binding but a spiritual one, indicating a restriction of their power and influence. The "darkness" symbolizes separation from God's presence, often associated with judgment and punishment. This aligns with the Jewish tradition found in the Book of Enoch, which describes fallen angels being bound until the day of judgment. The concept of spiritual imprisonment is also seen in <a href="/revelation/20.htm">Revelation 20:1-3</a>, where Satan is bound for a thousand years.bound for judgment on that great day The "great day" refers to the final judgment, a theme prevalent throughout Scripture. This day is characterized by God's ultimate justice being executed upon all creation, including rebellious angels. The certainty of this future judgment is a warning and a promise, emphasizing God's sovereignty and righteousness. This eschatological event is detailed in passages like <a href="/matthew/25-31.htm">Matthew 25:31-46</a> and <a href="/revelation/20-11.htm">Revelation 20:11-15</a>, where all beings are judged according to their deeds. The binding of these angels until that day underscores the inevitability of divine justice and the ultimate triumph of God's kingdom.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/a/angels.htm">Angels</a> Spiritual beings created by God, some of whom rebelled against Him by not staying within their assigned roles or domains. 2. <a href="/topical/p/proper_dwelling.htm">Proper Dwelling</a> The specific realm or position that God assigned to the angels, which they abandoned. 3. <a href="/topical/e/eternal_chains.htm">Eternal Chains</a> Symbolic of the restraint and judgment that God has placed upon these rebellious angels. 4. <a href="/topical/d/darkness.htm">Darkness</a> Represents the separation from God's presence and the spiritual state of these angels awaiting judgment. 5. <a href="/topical/j/judgment_on_that_great_day.htm">Judgment on that Great Day</a> Refers to the future time when God will execute final judgment on all beings, including these angels.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a> Just as the angels were judged for abandoning their roles, believers are called to remain faithful to God's commands and purposes for their lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_spiritual_warfare.htm">The Reality of Spiritual Warfare</a> Understanding that there are spiritual forces opposed to God can help Christians remain vigilant and reliant on God's strength. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_and_justice.htm">God's Sovereignty and Justice</a> God's judgment on the angels demonstrates His ultimate authority and the certainty of His justice, encouraging believers to trust in His righteous plans. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_rebellion.htm">The Consequences of Rebellion</a> The fate of the angels serves as a warning about the serious consequences of turning away from God's will. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_final_judgment.htm">Hope in Final Judgment</a> While judgment is a sobering reality, it also assures believers that God will ultimately set all things right, providing hope and motivation to persevere in faith.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jude_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jude 1</a> <a href="/q/why_do_demons_remain_silent.htm">Why do demons remain silent?</a> <a href="/q/who_are_the_spirits_in_prison.htm">Who are the spirits in prison mentioned in scripture?</a> <a href="/q/how_do_angels_sin_in_sinless_heaven.htm">How can angels sin if heaven is sinless?</a> <a href="/q/what_are_the_different_types_of_demons.htm">What are the different types of demons?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jude/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 6. - The second instance of Divine judgment is taken from the angelic world. The copula connects it closely with the former, and gives it some emphasis: "angels, too," i.e., angels not less than the people selected by God to be a people for himself, have been examples of the terrible law of Divine retribution. The particular class of angels are defined as those who kept not their first estate; or better, their own principality. The idea conveyed by the term here is that of lordship rather than beginning. It is the term which is held by most commentators to be used as a title of angels in such passages as <a href="/colossians/1-16.htm">Colossians 1:16</a>; <a href="/ephesians/1-21.htm">Ephesians 1:21</a>; <a href="/ephesians/3-10.htm">Ephesians 3:10</a>; <a href="/ephesians/6-12.htm">Ephesians 6:12</a>, etc., where mention is made of "principalities." In the present passage Tyndale, Cranmer, the Genevan and our Authorized Version agree in rendering it "first estate." But the Rhemish gives "principality," and Wickliffe has "princehood." Those seem right, therefore, who take the reference to be to the Jewish idea of a peculiar dignity or lordship held by the angels in creation. The sin alleged as the reason for the penalty which the writer recalls to the minds of his readers is that they failed to keep this lordship, and left their proper habitation; by which latter clause a descent to a different sphere of being is intended. The penalty itself is this - that God hath kept them in everlasting chains (or, bonds, with the Revised Version) under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. It is well to retain the rendering "kept" in this clause, instead of the "reserved" of the Authorized Version. For the verb used in describing the sin and that used in describing the penalty are the same. As they "kept not their lordship," God has "kept them in everlasting bonds." The word by which the idea of the everlasting is expressed is a peculiarly strong one, occurring only once again in the New Testament, viz. in <a href="/romans/1-20.htm">Romans 1:20</a>, where it is applied to God's "eternal power." It designates these bonds as bonds from which there never can be escape. The place of this present penal detention is declared to be "under darkness." The term selected for the darkness, again, is an unusual one, occurring only here, in verse 13, and in <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4, 17</a>, and possibly <a href="/hebrews/12-18.htm">Hebrews 12:18</a>. It means the densest, blackest darkness, and is used both in Homer and in the apocryphal literature (Wisd. 17:2) of the darkness of the nether world. This darkness, as Dean Alford observes, is "considered as brooding over them, and they under it." But this present penal detention is itself the prelude to a still more awful doom - "the judgment of the great day" (cf. <a href="/acts/2-20.htm">Acts 2:20</a>; <a href="/revelation/6-17.htm">Revelation 6:17</a>). There is a similar, but less definite, statement on the subject of angelic sin and penalty in <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4</a>. But these representations differ greatly from others (e.g., <a href="/ephesians/2-2.htm">Ephesians 2:2</a>; <a href="/ephesians/6-12.htm">Ephesians 6:12</a>), where the air or the heavenly places appear as the scenes occupied by evil spirits, and these spirits possess freedom. In the New Testament, indeed, there are no passages, except those in Peter and Jude, which speak of fallen angels as at present in bonds. Even in <a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a>, the statement is of a fate prepared, and nothing more. The difference in the two representations is due probably to a difference in the subjects. Other passages refer to the devil and his angels. But in the present passage there is nothing to indicate that the fall of Satan is in view. The sin suggested by the context is not the sin of pride, but a sin against nature. The reference, therefore, is taken to be to the Jewish idea that amatory passion is not limited to the creatures of earth, and that some angels, yielding to the spell of the beauty of the daughters of men, forsook their own kingdom, and entered unto unnatural relations with them. The Jewish belief is seen in the story of Asmodeus in the Book of Tobit; it is found by Josephus (who has been followed by not a few modern interpreters) in <a href="/genesis/6-1.htm">Genesis 6:1-4</a>; and it is given with special distinctness in the Book of Enoch. <a href="/commentaries/jude/1-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>And τε (te) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_5037.htm">Strong's 5037: </a> And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also. [the] angels ἀγγέλους (angelous) Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_32.htm">Strong's 32: </a> From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor. who τοὺς (tous) Article - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. did not stay within τηρήσαντας (tērēsantas) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5083.htm">Strong's 5083: </a> From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold. their ἑαυτῶν (heautōn) Reflexive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1438.htm">Strong's 1438: </a> Himself, herself, itself. [own] τὴν (tēn) Article - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. domain, ἀρχὴν (archēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_746.htm">Strong's 746: </a> From archomai; a commencement, or chief. but ἀλλὰ (alla) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_235.htm">Strong's 235: </a> But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise. abandoned ἀπολιπόντας (apolipontas) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_620.htm">Strong's 620: </a> From apo and leipo; to leave behind; by implication, to forsake. their τὸ (to) Article - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. [proper] ἴδιον (idion) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2398.htm">Strong's 2398: </a> Pertaining to self, i.e. One's own; by implication, private or separate. dwelling, οἰκητήριον (oikētērion) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3613.htm">Strong's 3613: </a> A dwelling-place, habitation, abode. Neuter of a presumed derivative of oikeo; a residence. He keeps τετήρηκεν (tetērēken) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5083.htm">Strong's 5083: </a> From teros; to guard, i.e. To note; by implication, to detain; by extension, to withhold; by extension, to withhold. under ὑπὸ (hypo) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_5259.htm">Strong's 5259: </a> A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when). darkness, ζόφον (zophon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2217.htm">Strong's 2217: </a> Darkness, murkiness, gloom. Akin to the base of nephos; gloom. in eternal ἀϊδίοις (aidiois) Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_126.htm">Strong's 126: </a> Eternal, everlasting. From aei; everduring. chains δεσμοῖς (desmois) Noun - Dative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1199.htm">Strong's 1199: </a> Or desmos des-mos' neuter and masculine respectively from deo; a band, i.e. Ligament or shackle; figuratively, an impediment or disability. for εἰς (eis) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1519.htm">Strong's 1519: </a> A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. judgment κρίσιν (krisin) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2920.htm">Strong's 2920: </a> Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice. on [that] great μεγάλης (megalēs) Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3173.htm">Strong's 3173: </a> Large, great, in the widest sense. day. ἡμέρας (hēmeras) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2250.htm">Strong's 2250: </a> A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">NT Letters: Jude 1:6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain (Jud. 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