Jude 1:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.”

Jude 1:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Jude 1:8 in 6 Bible Translations

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Jude 1:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.”

Jude 1:8 — World English Bible

Jude 1:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities. ”

Jude 1:8 — American Standard Version

Jude 1:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,”

Jude 1:8 — Young's Literal Translation

Jude 1:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [the] flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities. ”

Jude 1:8 — Darby Translation

Jude 1:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Likewise notwithstanding these sleepers also defile the flesh, and despise gouernment, and speake euill of them that are in authoritie.”

Jude 1:8 — Geneva Bible

Jude 1:8 in Context — Jude 1

6 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.

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

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What Does Jude 1:8 Mean?

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