Jude — Greek text and reception
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Source guide and review record
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Jude
V2 • Working translation draft • Sep 13, 2026
Complete working translation draft, V1, Sep 8, 2026. All 25 source verses independently translated from the directly accessed Greek running text, then reviewed against that text for clauses, pronouns, negatives, and sequence. Every verse now has verified reception or a precise pointer to a multi-verse exposition in the English presentations identified below. No Hebrew parallel or LXX counterpart is supplied for this New Testament letter. No NA28/UBS, manuscript, or critical-apparatus collation is claimed. Independent specialist review remains outstanding.
1 chapter • 25 translation rows
Reader’s guide
The three columns identify the verse, give its literal-smooth English translation from the declared Greek, and distinguish textual observations from attributed reception.
One chapter; SBLGNT numbering, 1:1–25; one source verse per row, 25 source verses and 25 rows. Sentences may continue across consecutive rows. Editorial pericope headings are navigation aids. The five Hebrew/Greek comparison classifications do not apply to this single-source translation.
Source basis and review scope
Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010); official Faithlife/SBLGNT electronic text, repository version 1.2 (Jul 10, 2023), accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Sources, Method & Decisions
Source register
[G] Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010); official Faithlife/SBLGNT electronic text, repository version 1.2 (Jul 10, 2023), accessed Sep 8, 2026.. Jude 1:1–25, complete Greek running main text, read directly verse by verse. Publisher-maintained electronic Greek transcription; main text only. No manuscript images or apparatus collated. Source [G]. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
[LIC] SBLGNT licensing and version declaration. Version history and CC BY 4.0 declaration; license also directly read at SBLGNT license. Publisher repository metadata and license. Source [LIC]. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
[CL] Clement of Alexandria, Fragments I.II, Comments on the Epistle of Jude, transmitted in the Latin translation associated with Cassiodorus; William Wilson translation, ANF volume 2 (1885), New Advent presentation. Originally consulted on Jude 1:4, 8, and 9; expanded review includes the precise verse comments cited in the table, all read within the transmitted commentary on the letter. English presentation of transmitted patristic commentary; not a collation of its lost Greek original or Latin witnesses. Source [CL]. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.
Contextual term record
δοῦλος → servant. Religious self-designation in 1:1; the book does not assert an earthly legal status for Jude.
τηρέω / φυλάσσω → keep / guard. Kept at 1:1, 6, 13 and keep at 1:21 form a repeated word family; guard at 1:24 preserves a different verb.
ἅπαξ → once for all. At 1:3, 5; the repetition is retained, with the exact force at 1:5 flagged for review.
Ἰησοῦς → Jesus. Source G’s explicit reading at 1:5; no silent replacement by another edition’s title.
δεσπότης / κύριος → Master / Lord. Both titles retained in 1:4; Lord elsewhere follows the source.
σπιλάδες → reefs. At 1:12, provisional lexical choice; blemishes remains an alternative for review.
ἀγάπαι → love feasts. The plural in the shared-feasting context at 1:12.
μυριάδες → myriads. At 1:14, immense companies; no modern quantitative conversion or narrowing of their identity.
ψυχικοί → people of merely natural life. At 1:19, contextual contrast with the Spirit; not a psychological diagnosis.
διακρινομένους → those who are doubting. At 1:22, chosen construal of the participle in source G; disputed remains a possible semantic nuance.
χιτών → tunic. Garment image at 1:23, kept distinct from a generic robe or cloak.
Material decisions
Greek base text copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license). This independent English translation and its editorial notes adapt that Greek text; they are not the publishers’ English translation and imply no publisher endorsement. The source is supplied without warranties under its license.
Initial version: new English translation from source G; no intentional departure from its main-text reading. Apparatus boundary symbols in the electronic text are editorial markers, not translated words.
Followed Jesus in 1:5 and the complete three-part instructions in 1:22–23 as directly read in source G. These are main-text fidelity decisions, not conclusions from manuscript collation.
Kept ancient images and ambiguous referents visible, especially other flesh, glorious ones, reefs, holy myriads, and the stained tunic.
Preserved source repetitions, including keep, once for all, and the ungodly word family in the Enoch quotation.
Clement’s interpretations are labeled reception from the transmitted commentary; they are not used to reconstruct Jude’s Greek main text.
Open questions and remaining review
Specialist review should reassess once for all and the construction of 1:5, the demonstrative and other flesh in 1:7, and reefs/blemishes in 1:12.
The Enoch quotation is translated directly from Jude’s Greek; no independent 1 Enoch witness or critical edition was collated for this draft.
No manuscript apparatus was collated for the significant readings in 1:5 and 1:22–23. A later critical review should record exact witnesses and edition evidence before proposing changes.
The scope of doubting in 1:22 and the respective objects of fear and garment imagery in 1:23 remain subjects for further review.
Version record
V1: First working translation of the declared scope under the updated Saints Translation reference.
Review scope and additional sources
All twenty-five source verses were checked in literary units against SBLGNT’s Greek main text; the translation is retained. Every verse has a passage-specific textual note and verified Christian exposition or an explicit pointer to the author’s multi-verse treatment. Clement is read through the transmitted Latin tradition in English; Calvin through John Owen’s translation, with editorial comments separately identified. These sources do not replace the selected Greek. No manuscript apparatus, independent Enoch or Moses witness, or exhaustive reception history was collated. Independent specialist review remains outstanding.
[OR] Origen, Commentary on Matthew X.17, English presentation.
[AU] Augustine, City of God XV.23, paragraph beginning Let us omit, then; English presentation.
[JE] Jerome, On Illustrious Men 4, Jude; English presentation.
[BU] John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part One: judgment dream in Interpreter’s house and the Shining Ones’ account near the Celestial City, Gutenberg editorial §§89, 395. Later allegorical reuse; section numbers and cross-references belong to this electronic presentation.
[C1] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 1–2, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
[C2] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 3–4, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
[C3] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 5–7, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
[C4] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 8–10, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
[C5] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 11–13, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
[C6] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 14–16, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
[C7] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 17–19, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
[C8] John Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, Jude 20–25, translated and edited by John Owen. Later Reformed exposition; editorial footnotes are distinguished from Calvin’s body text.
Collation against Nestle–Aland 28
[C8]On 13 September 2026 every verse of this book where the SBLGNT and NA28 differ was identified from the edition marks of Tyndale House's Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament (STEPBible, CC BY 4.0) and the SBLGNT apparatus, and the rendering above was read at each one. 2 verses differ; 2 of them would read differently in English if NA28 were translated instead of the SBLGNT, and each of those carries a note above beginning "NA28". The collation is against TAGNT's edition marks and the SBLGNT apparatus; a printed NA28 apparatus has not been consulted, and NA28's square brackets are inferred, not recorded.
[C8]At 1 place the English coincides with an NA28 plus that idiom could also supply, and the note marks the word as supplied: 1:16. Each is marked in its note.