Jude 1:6 (DBY)

Passage

And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to [the] judgment of [the] great day;

Nearby Context

Jude 1:4 For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons], turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:5 But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of [the] land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed.

Jude 1:6 And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to [the] judgment of [the] great day;

Jude 1:7 as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these dreamers also defile [the] flesh, and despise lordship, and speak railingly against dignities.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "darkness", "angels", "kept", "original", "state", "abandoned", "dwelling", and "keeps". 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 "But I would put you in remembrance..." into verse 7's "as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities...", 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.