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Jude 13 Explained in Context

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Verse 13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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Role in This Section

Wave and wandering-star images complete the portrait with shame, instability, and reserved darkness.

Read It With

  • Jude 11–13

Read Jude 11–13 as a complete section. The three named precedents in verse 11 and the images in verses 12–13 converge on self-serving, fruitless, unstable danger and judgment.

Why It Needs Context

The final wave and star images continue verse 12's portrait and do not provide independent hidden codes.

Read Jude 1:11–13 together

Why these verses belong together: The Cain-Balaam-Korah woe and six images converge on self-serving, fruitless, unstable danger and judgment.

Verse 11. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Verse 12. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Verse 13. Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

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Read Jude 11–13 — Cain, Balaam, Korah, and Images of Empty Danger
Sources used for this context pointer

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: The exact displayed KJV wording and immediate English context for Jude 11–13.

Exact location: eBible/CrossWire eng-kjv2006 USFM, source files dated 2026-08-19, Jude 1, verses within Jude 11–13; archive and normalized-corpus SHA-256 values are recorded in the library policy.

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Greek textual evidence

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition

Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos

Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010

Supports: The critically edited Greek wording, clause relationships, and visible variation markers checked for the passage.

Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT repository, data/sblgnt/text/Jude.txt, verses within Jude 11–13.

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