Jude 1:16

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Summary

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Murmurers

Walking

Their mouth

Jude 1:15

2 Peter 2:18

Having

1 Timothy 6:5

James 2:1

2 Peter 2:1

General references

Acts 12:22

Bible References

Murmurers

but the Scribes and Pharisees of that place reproach'd his disciples, and said, why do ye eat and drink with publicans and scandalous people?

at which the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, this man gives access to men of bad character, and eats with them.

upon seeing this, they all murmur'd, saying, he is going to be treated by a dissolute person.

The Jews then murmured against him, for having said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven."

neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and were slain by the destroying angel.

do every thing without murmuring and disputes:

Walking

for they assur'd you, there would be impostors in the last days, who would follow their own impious passions.

I say then, conduct yourselves by the spirit, and you will not then gratify the animal passions.

person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:

for the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but get teachers of their own corrupt taste, to sooth their ears that itch for flattery:

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

especially those, who prostitute themselves to sensual infamous passions: who despise magistrates, who being audacious, and insolent, intrepidly calumniate the higher powers;

Above all things you are to know, that in these last times, impostors will appear, who will abandon themselves to their own sensual passions, whose cry will be,

Their mouth

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious among them, of all the impious actions they have committed, and of all the injurious expressions, which impious sinners have utter'd against him."

when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:

Having

mischievous opinions, and a familiarity with pernicious ignorant impostors, who consider religion only as it makes for their gain.

My brethren, let not your christian profession be accompanied with partiality.

As there were false prophets among the people of Israel, there will likewise be false doctors among you, who by introducing pernicious sects, and by renouncing the Lord, who bought them, will bring upon themselves swift destruction.

General references

at which the people gave a shout, saying, it is the voice of a God, and not of a man.