Jude 1:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

2 Peter 2:17

Trees

Twice

1 Timothy 5:6

Hebrews 6:4

2 Peter 2:18

Plucked

Matthew 15:13

Mark 11:20

General references

Luke 23:31

Bible References

Are spots

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

Feasts

As you eat, everyone takes his own supper; one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

Feeding

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'

There was a rich man, clad in purple and fine linen, who lived sumptuously every day.

Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;

Clouds

These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.

Trees

but when the sun rose they got scorched and withered away because they had no root.

and noticing a fig tree by the roadside he went up to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you after this!" And instantly the fig tree withered up.

but when the sun rose it got scorched and withered away, because it had no root;

Then Peter remembered. "Rabbi," he said, "there is the fig tree you cursed, all withered!"

some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;

Remain in me, as I remain in you: just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, without remaining on the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Twice

whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies.

For in the case of people who have been once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly Gift, who participated in the holy Spirit,

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

Plucked

He replied, "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

Now as they passed in the morning they noticed the fig tree had withered to the root.

General references

For if this is what they do when the wood is green, what will they do when the wood is dry?"