Jude 1:16

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These people are grumblers and complainers, living according to their own desires. Their mouths speak arrogant words, flattering others for their own advantage.

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  • 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 especially those who follow the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. They are bold and arrogant, and they are unafraid to slander celestial beings.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Do not grumble, as some of them did, and they were destroyed by the destroyer.
  • Phil 2:14 : 14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
  • Num 16:11 : 11 Therefore, it is against the Lord that you and all your followers have gathered. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?"
  • Jude 1:18 : 18 They said to you, 'In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.'
  • Deut 1:27 : 27 You grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.'
  • Job 17:4-5 : 4 For you have closed their hearts to understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them. 5 He informs his friends for a portion, but the eyes of his children will fail.
  • Job 32:21 : 21 I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I flatter any person.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 God shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of His hands.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 Who despises a vile person in his eyes but honors those who fear the LORD; who keeps his word even when it hurts and does not go back on his promise.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They close up their hearts to compassion; they speak with arrogance.
  • Ps 73:9-9 : 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth. 10 Therefore His people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance. 11 They say, 'How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?'
  • Ps 106:25 : 25 They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To show partiality is not good, yet for a piece of bread, a man will transgress.
  • Isa 29:24 : 24 Those who are confused in spirit will gain understanding, and those who complain will learn instruction.
  • Luke 5:30 : 30 But the Pharisees and their scribes began to grumble to His disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
  • Luke 15:2 : 2 And the Pharisees and scribes were complaining, saying, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.'
  • Luke 19:7 : 7 But when they saw this, everyone began to complain, saying, "He has gone to be a guest with a sinful man."
  • John 6:41 : 41 At this, the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, 'I am the bread that came down from heaven.'
  • John 6:61 : 61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, 'Does this offend you?'
  • 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will gather teachers for themselves to satisfy their itching ears.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each person is tempted when they are drawn away and enticed by their own desire. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
  • Jas 2:1-9 : 1 My brothers, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of favoritism. 2 Suppose a man with gold rings and dressed in fine clothes enters your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the one wearing fine clothing and say, 'Here is a good seat for you,' but tell the poor man, 'You stand there,' or 'Sit here by my footstool,' 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you and drag you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name that was invoked over you? 8 If you truly fulfill the royal law according to Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well. 9 But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from fleshly desires, which wage war against the soul.
  • 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 But just as there were false prophets among the people, there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  • Num 14:36 : 36 The men whom Moses had sent to explore the land, and who returned and caused the whole assembly to complain by spreading a bad report about the land—
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 First of all, you should understand that in the last days, mockers will come, following their own evil desires,
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

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  • Jude 1:17-19
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    17But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    18They said to you, 'In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.'

    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

  • 10especially those who follow the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. They are bold and arrogant, and they are unafraid to slander celestial beings.

  • 18For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

  • 15to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

  • Rom 1:29-31
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    29They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

    30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

    31they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.

  • 8In the same way, these people also, relying on their dreams, defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious beings.

  • 4For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

    12These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted.

    13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

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    4he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words, which result in envy, strife, slander, and evil suspicions.

    5These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.

  • 2 Tim 3:2-4
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    2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and unholy.

    3They will be unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, and hostile to what is good.

    4They will be traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

  • 14Do everything without grumbling or arguing,

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

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    10For there are many who are rebellious, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

    11They must be silenced because they are upsetting whole households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.

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    12These people, however, are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They speak abusively about things they do not understand, and in their destruction, they too will be destroyed.

    13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

    14They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children.

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

    18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

  • 6Some have departed from these and turned aside to meaningless talk.

  • 2The entire assembly of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • 4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • 10the sexually immoral, those who practice homosexuality, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

  • 14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

  • 3First of all, you should understand that in the last days, mockers will come, following their own evil desires,

  • 10Do not grumble, as some of them did, and they were destroyed by the destroyer.

  • 9Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door.

  • 14Keep reminding them of these things, and solemnly warn them before God not to quarrel about words. Such arguments are useless and lead to the ruin of those who listen.

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    16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

    17Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

  • 16The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.

  • 3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

  • 16They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • 43Jesus answered, 'Stop grumbling among yourselves.'

  • 14But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth.

  • 8But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger.

  • 27How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites, who are murmuring against me.

  • 36The men whom Moses had sent to explore the land, and who returned and caused the whole assembly to complain by spreading a bad report about the land—