So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law, do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.
Jude 1:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law, do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.
Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.
But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.