Jude 1:6 (LSB)

Passage

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

Nearby Context

Jude 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:5 Now I want to remind you, though you know all things, that Jesus, having once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.

Jude 1:6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having indulged in the same way as these in gross sexual immorality and having gone after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and blaspheme glorious ones.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "darkness", "angels", "keep", "domain", "abandoned", "proper", "abode", and "kept". 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 want to remind you though..." into verse 7's "just 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.