When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.
Jude 1:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But these men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], like irrational beasts–by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish). American Standard Version (1901) But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed. Common English Bible But these people slander whatever they don’t understand. They are destroyed by what they know instinctively, as though they were irrational animals. Catholic Public Domain Version But these men certainly blaspheme against whatever they do not understand. And yet, whatever they, like mute animals, know from nature, in these things they are corrupted. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted. |
When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.
Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.
These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,