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Jude 1:12

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These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

These {G3778} are {G1526} spots {G4694} in {G1722} your {G5216} feasts of charity {G26}, when they feast {G4910} with you {G5213}, feeding {G4165} themselves {G1438} without fear {G870}: clouds {G3507} they are without water {G504}, carried about {G4064} of {G5259} winds {G417}; trees {G1186} whose fruit withereth {G5352}, without fruit {G175}, twice {G1364} dead {G599}, plucked up by the roots {G1610};

These men are filthy spots at your festive gatherings meant to foster love; they share your meals without a qualm, while caring only for themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; trees without fruit even in autumn, and doubly dead because they have been uprooted;

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

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Cross-References

  • 2 Peter 2:17 (8 votes)

    These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

  • 2 Peter 2:20 (8 votes)

    For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

  • Matthew 15:13 (8 votes)

    But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

  • Ezekiel 34:8 (8 votes)

    [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because [there was] no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

  • Ephesians 4:14 (7 votes)

    That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

  • Proverbs 25:14 (7 votes)

    ¶ Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift [is like] clouds and wind without rain.

  • Philippians 3:19 (7 votes)

    Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)