Jude 1:16

These are grumblers, complainers, who follow their evil desires. They are loud boasters, who, for their own advantage, flatter others.

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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

15He is coming to execute judgment on everyone. He is coming to convict all the ungodly of all the works they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

17But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken in the past by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:36So the men Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made the entire community grumble against Moses by spreading a bad report about the land—

Deuteronomy 1:27You complained in your tents and said, “It is because Yahweh hated us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Job 32:21I will not show favoritism; 1 neither will I give honorific titles to any man. 1

Psalms 15:4The worthless person is despised in his eyes, 1 but he honors those who fear Yahweh. 1 He swears to his own disadvantage and does not take back his promises. 1

Psalms 73:9They set their mouth against the heavens, 1 and their tongues march through the earth. 1

Proverbs 28:21It is not good to show partiality, 1 but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong. 1

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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