1. Jude 1:8 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

How are the actions of these men similar to the examples that Jude listed in the previous verses?

Jude 1:8 (ESV)

8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.

The correspondence between the sin of the groups mentioned by Jude and that of the heretics is not one-for-one, so we should be cautious of pressing the typology beyond Jude’s intended purpose.1 His basic argument has been that the heretics will come under God’s judgment in the same way as the people mentioned (Jude 1:5–7).