Jude 1:7 (LSB)

Passage

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.

Nearby Context

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.

Jude 1:9 But Michael the archangel, when he, disputing with the devil, was arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "just", "sodom", "gomorrah", "cities", "around", "having", "indulged", and "same". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "just" and "sodom", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "And angels who did not keep their..." into verse 8's "Yet in the same way these men...", so "just" and "sodom" 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 "just" and "sodom" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.