Jude 1:10
“But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”
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Read Full Chapter →These men insult what they do not understand, while the instincts they do share with animals become the very things that corrupt them.
What Does Jude 1:10 Mean?
Jude sharpens his portrait. The troublemakers speak evil of things they do not know, mocking realities beyond their grasp. What they do understand is only what they share with brute beasts, the pull of instinct and appetite. Jude sets their ignorance and their animal knowing side by side.
The tragedy is that the very appetites they follow undo them. What they treat as freedom becomes the agent of their ruin; in those things they corrupt themselves. A life governed only by impulse, without reverence for God or for truth higher than desire, collapses inward. Jude is not merely condemning; he is diagnosing. He wants his readers to see clearly so they will choose the better way, the life shaped by the Spirit rather than by instinct, and find in Christ what appetite can never give.