Jude 1:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

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  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.
  • Acts 20:29 : 29 I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;
  • 1 Tim 4:1-2 : 1 But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits, 2 Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;
  • 2 Tim 3:1-5 : 1 But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion, 3 Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good, 4 False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God; 5 Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
  • Ps 14:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good. 2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

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  • 2 Pet 3:2-4
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    2So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

    3Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

    4Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

  • Jude 1:15-17
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    15To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

    16These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

    17But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 3:1-6
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    1But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.

    2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

    3Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

    4False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

    5Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

    6For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

    2And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

    3And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • 1 Pet 4:2-4
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    2So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

    3Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

    4And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

  • 2 Pet 2:13-14
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    13For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

    14Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

  • 2 Tim 4:3-4
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    3For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

    4And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

  • Jude 1:7-8
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    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

    8In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

  • 2 Pet 3:16-17
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    16And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • Eph 4:19
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    19Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;

  • Acts 20:30
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    30And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

  • Jude 1:12-13
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    12These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

    13Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

  • Rom 1:29
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    29Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

  • Jude 1:10
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    10But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

  • 2 Pet 2:20
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    20For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

  • 1 John 2:26
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    26I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

  • 2 John 1:7
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    7Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • 1 John 2:18
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    18Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.