Jude 1:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὗτοί εἰσιν ἐν ταῖς ἀγάπαις ὑμῶν σπιλάδες, συνευωχούμενοι ὑμῖν, ἀφόβως ἑαυτοὺς ποιμαίνοντες: νεφέλαι ἄνυδροι, ὑπὸ ἀνέμων περιφερόμεναι· δένδρα φθινοπωρινὰ, ἄκαρπα, δὶς ἀποθανόντα, ἐκριζωθέντα·

Transliteration

Houtoi eisin en tais agapais hymōn spilades, syneuōchoumenoi hymin, aphobōs heautous poimainontes: nephelai anydroi, hypo anemōn peripheromenai; dendra phthinopōrina, akarpa, dis apothanonta, ekrizōthenta;

Grammar Details

• *Houtoi eisin*: demonstrative pronoun with present active indicative, 3rd person plural - these are
• *en tais agapais hymōn*: prepositional phrase with dative - in your love feasts
• *spilades*: nominative, feminine, plural - hidden reefs/spots
• *syneuōchoumenoi*: present middle participle, nominative, masculine, plural - feasting with
• *hymin*: personal pronoun, dative, plural - with you
• *aphobōs*: adverb - fearlessly
• *heautous poimainontes*: reflexive pronoun with present active participle - shepherding themselves
• *nephelai anydroi*: nominative, feminine, plural - waterless clouds
• *hypo anemōn peripheromenai*: prepositional phrase with present passive participle - carried about by winds
• *dendra phthinopōrina*: nominative, neuter, plural - autumn trees
• *akarpa*: nominative, neuter, plural - fruitless
• *dis apothanonta*: adverb with aorist active participle - twice dead
• *ekrizōthenta*: aorist passive participle, nominative, neuter, plural - uprooted

Word Meanings

• *agapais*: love feasts/feasts
• *spilades*: hidden reefs/spots/blemishes
• *syneuōchoumenoi*: feasting with/dining together
• *aphobōs*: fearlessly/shamelessly
• *poimainontes*: shepherding/tending/feeding
• *nephelai*: clouds/cloudy masses
• *anydroi*: waterless/without water
• *peripheromenai*: carried about/swept along
• *dendra*: trees/large plants
• *phthinopōrina*: autumn/late autumn/withering
• *akarpa*: fruitless/unfruitful/barren
• *apothanonta*: dead/having died
• *ekrizōthenta*: uprooted/pulled up by the roots

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  These 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.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  These{G3778} are{G1526} they who are hidden rocks{G4694} in{G1722} your{G5216} love-feasts{G26} when they feast with{G4910} you,{G5213} shepherds that without fear{G870} feed{G4165} themselves;{G1438} clouds{G3507} without water,{G504} carried along{G4064} by{G5259} winds;{G417} autumn{G5352} leaves{G1186} without fruit,{G175} twice{G1364} dead,{G599} plucked up by the roots;{G1610}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  These{G3778} are{G1526}{(G5748)} spots{G4694} in{G1722} your{G5216} feasts of charity{G26}, when they feast{G4910}{(G5740)} with you{G5213}, feeding{G4165}{(G5723)} themselves{G1438} without fear{G870}: clouds{G3507} they are without water{G504}, carried about{G4064}{(G5746)} of{G5259} winds{G417}; trees{G1186} whose fruit withereth{G5352}, without fruit{G175}, twice{G1364} dead{G599}{(G5631)}, plucked up by the roots{G1610}{(G5685)};

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  These are spottes which of youre kindnes feast to gedder with out feare fedynge them selves. Cloudes they are with outen water caried about of wyndes and trees with out frute at gadringe tyme twyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  These are spottes which of youre kindnes feast togedder, without feare, fedynge the selues. Cloudes they are withouten water, caried about of wyndes, and trees without frute at gadringe tyme, twyse deed and plucked vp by the rotes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  These are rockes in your feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without al feare, feeding themselues: cloudes they are wtout water, caried about of windes, corrupt trees & without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by ye rootes.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  These are spottes in your feastes of charitie, whe they feast with you, without al feare feedyng the selues: cloudes they are without water, caryed about of windes, corrupt trees, and without fruite, twise dead, and plucked vp by the rootes:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  These 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,

• World English Bible (2000)

  These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;

Referenced Verses

• Matt 15:13 : 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up.
• Prov 25:14 : 14 Whoever boasts of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
• Ezek 34:8 : 8 As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and did not feed my flock;
• Eph 4:14 : 14 That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive;
• Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.
• 2 Pet 2:17-20 : 17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.
• 1 Thess 5:6-7 : 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
• 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
• Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. 7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God: 8 But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.
• Jas 5:5 : 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
• 2 Pet 2:13-14 : 13 And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.
• Ezek 34:10 : 10 Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.
• Ezek 34:18 : 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?
• Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it vanishes.
• Matt 13:6 : 6 But when the sun came up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
• Isa 56:10-12 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory. 12 Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
• Ezek 17:9 : 9 Say thus says the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it withers? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.
• Ezek 34:2 : 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds; Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
• 2 Chr 7:20 : 20 Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.
• Ps 1:3 : 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.
• Ps 37:2 : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
• Ps 78:29-31 : 29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 30 They were not estranged from their desire. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, 31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.
• Matt 21:19-20 : 19 And when he saw a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, Let no fruit grow on you ever again. And immediately the fig tree withered away. 20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How quickly the fig tree withered away!
• Mark 4:6 : 6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
• Mark 11:20-21 : 20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter, calling to remembrance, said to him, Master, behold, the fig tree which you cursed is withered away.
• Luke 8:6 : 6 And some fell on rock; and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.
• Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your rest, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?
• Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming; and begins to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and be drunk;
• Luke 16:19 : 19 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day:
• Luke 21:34 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be burdened with surfeiting, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you unexpectedly.
• John 15:4-6 : 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
• 1 Cor 11:20-22 : 20 When you come together therefore in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. 21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk. 22 What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.