Jude 1:16

Such people are grumblers, always complaining. They follow their own evil desires, speaking boastfully about themselves, and flattering others to get what they want.

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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 judge everyone, to reveal all the wicked things people have done, and all the terrible things hostile sinners have said against him.”

17But you, my dear friends, please remember what you were told by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:36The men that Moses had sent to explore the country—those who came back and because they gave a bad report they made all the Israelites complain against the Lord—

Deuteronomy 1:27You complained while you were in your tents and said, “It's because the Lord hates us that he led us out of Egypt in order to hand us over to the Amorites to be wiped out.

Job 32:21I will not take sides, and I'm not going to flatter anyone.

Psalms 15:4They reject people the Lord has rejected, but honor those who follow the Lord. They keep their promises even when it's hard to do. They don't change their minds.

Psalms 73:9They talk irreverently against heaven above, and defame people here on earth.

Proverbs 28:21Showing favoritism isn't good, but some people will do wrong just for a piece of bread.

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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