1. Jude 1:19 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does Jude mean by saying that these men are devoid of the Spirit?

Jude 1:19 (ESV)

19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.

Jude is claiming that the heretics are unregenerate, they are not true Christian believers. Despite their claim to dreams and revelations given by the Spirit (Jude 1:8), the fruit of their lives show them to be those who do not have the Spirit (see Galatians 5:16–25). Immoral behaviour is sufficient evidence of the absence of the Spirit of God.1