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 punishment for their wrongdoing. They take pleasure in wild parties in broad daylight. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceitful pleasures while they eat with you.

Feasts

For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk.

Feeding

So they ate and were very satisfied, because he granted their desire.

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge. They are all dumb dogs they cannot bark. They keep on dreaming and lying around, and they're lovers of sleep!

"As certainly as I'm alive and living, my sheep have truly become victims, food for all of the wild animals because there are no shepherds. My shepherds did not go searching for my flock. Instead, the shepherds fed themselves, and my flock they would not feed!'

Then I'll say to myself, "You've stored up plenty of good things for many years. Take it easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself."'

"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in great luxury every day.

"Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on worldly things.

Therefore, let's not fall asleep like others do, but let's stay awake and be sober.

You have lived in luxury and pleasure on earth. You have fattened yourselves for the day of slaughter.

Clouds

Like clouds and winds without rain is the man who brags about gifts he never gave.

"What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? Your love is like a morning rain cloud it passes away like the morning dew.

These men are dried-up springs, mere clouds driven by a storm. Gloomy darkness is reserved for them.

Carried

Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.

Trees

He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither. He will prosper in everything he does.

Indeed, they soon will wither like grass, and like green herbs they will fade away.

But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they did not have any roots, they dried up.

Seeing a fig tree by the roadside, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He told it, "May fruit never come from you again!" And immediately the fig tree dried up.

But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they didn't have any roots, they dried up.

Remembering what Jesus had said, Peter pointed out to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has dried up!"

Others fell on stony ground, and as soon as they came up, they dried up because they had no moisture.

"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

Twice

But the self-indulgent widow is just as good as dead.

For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Plucked

then I will tear them up by the roots from the ground that I had given them! And as for this Temple that I have set apart for my name, I will throw it out of my sight and make it the butt of jokes and a means of ridicule among people worldwide!

"Tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says, "Will it prosper? Won't he pull up its roots, and strip it bare so all its fresh foliage dries up? It won't be by great strength or by a great army that it will be uprooted.

He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be pulled up by the roots.

While they were walking along early the next morning, they saw the fig tree dried up to its roots.

General references

"If the contagion returns and spreads throughout the house after the stones have been removed, after the house has been scraped out, and after it has been re-coated,

But even before they burned the fat, the servant of the priest would come and say to the person offering the sacrifice, "Give me meat to roast for the priest. He won't accept boiled meat from you, but only raw."

Whenever you sit down to dine with a ruler, carefully think about what is before you.

And if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?"