Jude 1:12

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Jude 1:12

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Summary

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;

Are spots

2 Peter 2:13

Feasts

1 Corinthians 11:21

Feeding

Clouds

Proverbs 25:14

Hosea 6:4

2 Peter 2:17

Carried

Ephesians 4:14

Trees

Twice

1 Timothy 5:6

Hebrews 6:4

2 Peter 2:18

Plucked

General references

Bible References

Are spots

suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.

Feasts

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

Feeding

They ate and were completely satisfied,
for He gave them what they craved.

Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them,
they know nothing;
all of them are mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they dream, lie down,
and love to sleep.

As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“because My flock has become prey and food for every wild animal since they lack a shepherd, for My shepherds do not search for My flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than My flock,

Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

“There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things,

So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

Clouds

The man who boasts about a gift that does not exist
is like clouds and wind without rain.

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.

These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

Carried

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

Trees

He is like a tree planted beside streams of water
that bears its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

For they wither quickly like grass
and wilt like tender green plants.

But when the sun came up they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered.

Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And He said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.

When the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it didn’t have a root, it withered.

Then Peter remembered and said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that You cursed is withered.”

Other seed fell on the rock; when it sprang up, it withered, since it lacked moisture.

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

Twice

however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit,

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Plucked

then I will uproot Israel from the soil that I gave them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My name I will banish from My presence; I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

You are to say: This is what the Lord God says:

Will it flourish?
Will he not tear out its roots
and strip off its fruit
so that it shrivels?
All its fresh leaves will wither!
Great strength and many people
will not be needed to pull it from its roots.

He replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

General references

“If the contamination reappears in the house after the stones have been pulled out, and after the house has been scraped and replastered,

Even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he won’t accept boiled meat from you—only raw.”

When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
consider carefully what is before you,

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”