Jude 1:16 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁶ These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.

³⁰ The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus."

² But the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law found fault. "This man always welcomes outcasts, and takes meals with them!" they complained.

⁷ On seeing this, every one began to complain: "He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast."

⁴¹ Upon this the Jews began murmuring against Jesus for saying-- 'I am the Bread which came down from Heaven.'

⁶¹ But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them:

¹⁰ And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so 'were destroyed by the Angel of Death.'

¹⁶ This is what I have to say--Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.

²⁴ And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.

¹⁴ In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension,

⁵ And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;

⁵ and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

³ For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers.

¹⁴ A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them. ¹⁵ Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

¹ My Brothers, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the worship of rank? ² Suppose a man should enter your Synagogue, with gold rings and in grand clothes, and suppose a poor man should come in also, in shabby clothes, ³ And you are deferential to the man who is wearing grand clothes, and say--"There is a good seat for you here," but to the poor man--"You must stand; or sit down there by my footstool," ⁴ Is not that to make distinctions among yourselves, and show yourselves prejudiced judges? ⁵ Listen, my dear Brothers. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the Kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you--you insult the poor man! Is not it the rich who oppress you? Is not it they who drag you into law-courts? ⁷ Is not it they who malign that honorable Name which has been bestowed upon you? ⁸ Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself,' you are doing right; ⁹ But, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.

¹⁴ Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.

² and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

¹ But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves. ² There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the Way of the Truth to be maligned. ³ In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

¹⁰ especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,

¹⁸ With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

³ First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,

¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all men, and to convict all godless people of all their godless acts, which in their ungodliness they have committed, and of all the harsh words which they have spoken against him, godless sinners that they are!'

¹⁸ how they used to say to you-- 'As time draws to an end, there will be scoffers, who will be led by their godless passions.'