Jude 1:12

12 These are blemishes [a] on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. [b] They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

Jude 1:12 In-Context

10 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.
11 Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain, and perish in Korah's rebellion.
12 These are blemishes on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;
13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.
14 It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "See, the Lord is coming with ten thousands of his holy ones,

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or [reefs]
  • [b]. Or [without fear. They are shepherds who care only for themselves]
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