Jude 1:6 (DRB)

Passage

And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.

Nearby Context

Jude 1:4 For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Jude 1:6 And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.

Jude 1:7 As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:8 In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "darkness", "angels", "kept", "principality", "forsook", "habitation", "hath", and "reserved". 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 "I will therefore admonish you though ye..." into verse 7's "As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring...", 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.