Jude 1:8 (LSB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

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!”

Jude 1:10 But these men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "same", "dreaming", "defile", "flesh", "reject", "authority", "blaspheme", and "glorious". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "same" and "dreaming", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 7's "just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the..." into verse 9's "But Michael the archangel when he disputing...", so "same" and "dreaming" 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 "same" and "dreaming" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.