Jude 1:8 (WEB)

Passage

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

Nearby Context

Jude 1:6 Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

Jude 1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "same", "dreaming", "defile", "flesh", "despise", "authority", "slander", and "celestial". 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 "Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the..." into verse 9's "But Michael the archangel when contending with...", 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.