Jude 1:6 (ASV)

Passage

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.

Nearby Context

Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Jude 1:6 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.

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "darkness", "angels", "kept", "principality", "left", "proper", "habitation", and "hath". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "darkness" and "angels", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "Now I desire to put you in..." into verse 7's "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the...", so "darkness" and "angels" belong inside that flow. In Jude context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "darkness" and "angels" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.