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Jude 1:7
In 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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jude addresses early Christians confronting infiltrators who distort grace. He places this warning between the judgment of rebellious angels in Jude 1:6 and the defiling conduct of the false teachers in Jude 1:8.
The words — ὡς (hōs) translates to "just as" or "in like manner," establishing a direct comparative structure. Σόδομα (Sodoma) and Γόμορρα (Gomorra) explicitly name the cities that function as the historical precedent.
The thread — The passage mirrors the bound angels of Jude 1:6 and the dreamers of Jude 1:8, while aligning with the ash-filled destruction in 2 Peter 2:6 and the desolation of Deuteronomy 29:23. It also connects to the exchange of natural relations for unnatural ones condemned in Romans 1:26.
Why it lands — The text states that Sodom and Gomorrah are displayed as an example of those enduring eternal fire. It requires the reader to recognize that sexual immorality and the rejection of created boundaries incur irreversible divine judgment.
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The Greek words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 29:23 All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Romans 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- 2 Peter 2:6 if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
- Genesis 18:20 Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
- Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
- Luke 17:29 But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- Isaiah 1:9 Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.