Jude 1:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Jude 1:20 —

Old words in this verse

ghost: — spirit, breath of life.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 6:18
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Romans 8:26-27
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. …
1 Corinthians 14:15
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Colossians 2:7
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-25)

Here, I. The apostle enlarges further on the character of these evil men and seducers: they are murmurers, complainers, etc., Jude 1:16. Observe, A murmuring complaining temper, indulged and expressed, lays men under a very bad character; such are very weak at least, and for the most part very wicked. They murmur against God and his providence, against men and their conduct; they are angry at ever…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Resuming Jude 17. building up yourselves--the opposite to the “separate themselves” (Jude 19): as “in the Holy Ghost” is opposed to “having not the Spirit.” on--as on a foundation. Building on THE FAITH is equivalent to building on Christ, the object of faith. praying in the Holy Ghost--(Ro 8:26; Ep 6:18). The Holy Spirit teaches what we are to pray for, and how. None can pray aright save by b…