Misinterpretations often twist 'ordained to this condemnation' as evidence of God predestining people to damnation independently of their choices, ignoring its reference to prophetic foreordination as in Enoch's prophecy about self-condemned sinners; another error sees the passage as tolerating grace-fueled lasciviousness, whereas it sharply condemns this distortion as the defining trait of these infiltrators, or mistakenly limits 'denying the Lord' to mere verbal rejection rather than their lived contradiction through immoral living.
Jude 1:4
King James Version (1769)
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:4 exposes the infiltration of ungodly false teachers into the church, individuals long ago destined for judgment, who pervert God's grace into a license for immorality and deny the lordship of Jesus Christ, urging believers to vigilance against such deceptive influences that threaten the purity of the faith.