Meaning, commentary and cross references
Jude 1:24
“Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,”In other translations
KJV · King James Version
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
NIV · New International Version
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—
WEB · World English Bible
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
What does Jude 1:24 mean?
John Gill · Exposition of the Entire Bible, on Jude 1:24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling,.... The people of God are liable to falling into temptation, into sin, into errors and mistakes, from an exercise of grace, or from a degree of steadfastness in Gospel truths, and even into a final and total apostasy, were it not for divine power; and they are not able to keep themselves. Adam, in his state of innocence, could not keep himself from falling; nor could the angels, many of whom fell, and the rest are preserved by the grace of God; wherefore, much less can imperfect sinful men keep themselves, they want both skill and power to do it; nor can any, short of Christ, keep them, and it is his work and office to preserve them; they…
John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1746–63). Public domain. Digital text: Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org).
Matthew Henry · Commentary on the Whole Bible, on Jude 1:16–25
God is able, and he is as willing as able, to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory; not as those who never have been faulty (for what has once been done can never be rendered undone, even by Omnipotence itself, for that implies a contradiction), but as those whose faults shall not be imputed, to their ruin, which, but for God's mercy and a Saviour's merits, they might most justly have been. - Before the presence of his glory. Observe, (1.) The glory of the Lord will shortly be present. We now look upon it as distant, and too many look upon it as uncertain, but it will come, and it will be manifest and apparent.
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706–21; Romans–Revelation completed by Nonconformist ministers). Public domain. Digital text: Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org).
John Calvin · Commentaries, on Jude 1:20–25
24. Ei autem qui servare potest vos (vel, eos) ? peccato immunes, et statuere in conspectu gloriae suae reprehensibiles cum exultatione, 25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. 25.
John Calvin, Commentaries (Calvin Translation Society English text). Public domain. Digital text: Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org).
Context: Jude 1:21–25 (WEB)
21Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22On some have compassion, making a distinction, 23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. 24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, 25to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.
Cross references
- 2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
- Colossians 1:22
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
- John 10:29–30
My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
- Hebrews 13:20–21
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- Ephesians 5:27
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without defect.
- 2 Corinthians 4:14
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also through Jesus, and will present us with you.
- Romans 16:25–27