Jude 1:12-13

Judgment on False Teachers

12 These are hidden reefs 1 c at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, d shepherds feeding themselves; e waterless clouds, f swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, g uprooted; 13 h wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of i their own shame; j wandering stars, k for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

  1. Cross References
    2 Peter 2:13
    Suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 34:2
    Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God : Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?
    Ezekiel 34:8
    As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep.
    Ezekiel 34:10
    Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.
  3. Cross References
    Proverbs 25:14
    Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.
    2 Peter 2:17
    These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
  4. Cross References
    Hebrews 13:9
    Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.
  5. Cross References
    Matthew 15:13
    He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 57:20
    But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
  7. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 4:2
    But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
    Philippians 3:19
    Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:12
    How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
  9. Cross References
    2 Peter 2:17
    These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
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