Jude is focusing on the ability of God to make his people stand morally pure before him in judgment, blameless and without defect.¹ The goal of all his warnings is that the church should heed them and repent of sin so that when Christ returns she will be found to be a sacrificial offering to God for his glory.² The words he uses in the phrase specifically recalls the description of sacrificial animals in the Old Testament (see 1 Peter 1:19, Romans 12:1–2; James 1:27). Believers are able to be blameless before God because of Jesus’ sacrificial death; he functions as the sacrifice on their behalf (Jude 1:3; 2 Peter 1:1; Hebrews 7:26–28).