What Does Jude 1:25 Mean?
To the only wise God, our Deliverer, through Jesus the Anointed One, our Lord, be weight, greatness, might, and authority, before all the age, and now, and unto all the ages. Amen.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.THE KEY
The God who delivers holds both the strength to rule and the authority to do so, now and through every age.
THE MEANING
The one named as deliverer bears the weight, majesty, ruling strength, and authority praised here. That rule belongs now and extends into every age.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that God’s authority is remote or deferred; the verse names it as present now and continuing through every age.
THE ROOT
σωτήρ
sōtēr
GROWS FROM
σῴζω / σωζ- (sōzō / sōz-)
To deliver, rescue, or bring safely out.
“Deliverer” in this verse is sōtēr. The title is active: God is the one who brings the reader out. The same word-family names both the rescuer and the deliverance, so rescue belongs to God’s nature here.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: Deliver, rescue, bring safely through.
σῴζω
This verb shows the action contained in the title: the Saviour is the one who delivers.
sōtēria: Deliverance, rescue.
σωτηρία
The related noun names the movement out that the title attributes to God.
κράτος
kratos
GROWS FROM
κρατ-
krat-
Strength, might, prevailing force.
“might” in this verse is kratos. The word translated “dominion” carries the force of strength that prevails or holds firm. Beside ἐξουσία (exousia, authority or right), it names the strength of rule, distinct from the authority to act.
ALSO GROWS
krateō: Hold fast, take hold of, master.
κρατέω
This related verb makes the holding force within dominion visible.
enkrateia: Self-control, mastery over oneself.
ἐγκράτεια
This branch shows κράτος as governing strength, even when that strength is directed inward.
ἐξουσία
exousia
GROWS FROM
ἐξουσία / ἔξεστι (exousia / exesti)
Right, permission, or authority to act.
“Power” here names authority or the right to act, alongside κράτος (kratos, prevailing strength). The verse gathers both the force of rule and its authority in the one deliverer.
ALSO GROWS
exesti: It is permitted; it is lawful.
ἔξεστι
This related form makes the sense of permission or right within ἐξουσία clear.
exousiazō: Exercise authority, act with authority.
ἐξουσιάζω
This verb shows ἐξουσία as authority put into action.
THE PATTERN
Praise joins God’s weight and authority with realities that are present now and extend through every age.
And let his weighty name be blessed for the ages, and let the whole earth be filled with his weight. Amen, and amen.Now to the King of the ages, the one who does not decay, the unseen one, the only wise God, be honor and weight unto the ages of the ages. Amen.If anyone speaks, let them speak as the words of God. If anyone serves, let them serve by the strength God supplies, so that in all things God may be given weight through Jesus, the Anointed One, to whom belong the weight and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen.THE THREAD
If anyone speaks, let them speak as the words of God. If anyone serves, let them serve by the strength God supplies, so that in all things God may be given weight through Jesus, the Anointed One, to whom belong the weight and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen.The word κράτος (kratos, ruling strength) appears as “dominion” in both verses. Jude places it beside ἐξουσία (exousia, authority), letting the two words reveal the strength and right of rule together.
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