Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons for gain's sake.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15To execute judgment upon all, and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

17But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Cross References

Numbers 14:36Therefore all the men, whom Moses had sent to view the land, and who at their return had made the whole multitude to murmur against him, speaking ill of the land that it was naught,

Deuteronomy 1:27And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God,

Job 32:21I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.

Psalms 15:4In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, and deceiveth not;

Psalms 73:9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

Proverbs 28:21He that hath respect to a person in judgment, doth not well: such a man even for a morsel of bread forsaketh the truth.

Matthew Henry on Jude 1:9-16

Contumacious Professors. ( a. d. 66.) 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of… Read the whole commentary →

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