Jude 1:8

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Summary

Jude 1:8

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

These

Jeremiah 38:25

Despise

General references

Numbers 16:12

Job 34:18

1 Peter 2:13

Bible References

These

But if the officials hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, 'Declare to us now what you have said to the king; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also what the king said to you':

Despise

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and the LORD is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of the LORD?"

But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace. Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, was severely oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He put out the right eye of all of them, and he would not allow anyone to rescue Israel. Not one was left of the children of Israel beyond the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, did not put out, except for seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and went to Jabesh Gilead.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

General references

Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, "We won't come up:

Who says to a king, 'Vile.' or to nobles, 'Wicked.'?

Subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;