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These are spotsw in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feedingb themselves without fear: cloudsc they are without water, carriedd about of winds; trees whose fruitf withereth, without fruit, twice deadi, pluckedk up by the roots;

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2 Peter 2:13• ¹³receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you; (2 Peter 2:13)

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Phil. 3:19• ¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:) (Phil. 3:19)

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Prov. 25:14• ¹⁴Clouds and wind without rain, so is a man that boasteth himself of a false gift. (Prov. 25:14)

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Eph. 4:14• ¹⁴in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error; (Eph. 4:14)

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John 15:4‑6• ⁴Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (John 15:4‑6)

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Heb. 6:4‑6• ⁴For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
⁵and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,
⁶and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him. (Heb. 6:4‑6)

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Matt. 15:13• ¹³But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. (Matt. 15:13)

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are spots.

2 Peter 2:13‑14• ¹³receiving the reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, feasting with you;
¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse; (2 Peter 2:13‑14)

feasts.

1 Cor. 11:21‑22• ²¹For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.
²²Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise. (1 Cor. 11:21‑22)

feeding.

Psa. 78:29‑31• ²⁹And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
³⁰They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
³¹When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. (Psa. 78:29‑31)

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Isa. 56:10‑12• ¹⁰His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
¹¹and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them:
¹²Come, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. (Isa. 56:10‑12)

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Ezek. 34:8,18• ⁸As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because my sheep have been a prey, and my sheep have been meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, and my shepherds searched not for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock,
¹⁸Is it too small a thing unto you to have eaten up the good pastures, but ye must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures; and to have drunk of the settled waters, but ye must foul the rest with your feet? (Ezek. 34:8,18)

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Luke 12:19‑20,45• ¹⁹and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
²⁰But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
⁴⁵But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken, (Luke 12:19‑20,45)

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Luke 16:19• ¹⁹Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day. (Luke 16:19)

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Luke 21:34• ³⁴But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be laden with surfeiting and drinking and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares; (Luke 21:34)

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Phil. 3:19• ¹⁹whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and their glory in their shame, who mind earthly things:) (Phil. 3:19)

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1 Thess. 5:6‑7• ⁶So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;
⁷for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night; (1 Thess. 5:6‑7)

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James 5:5• ⁵Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter; (James 5:5)

clouds.

Prov. 25:14• ¹⁴Clouds and wind without rain, so is a man that boasteth himself of a false gift. (Prov. 25:14)

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Hos. 6:4• ⁴What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away. (Hos. 6:4)

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2 Peter 2:17• ¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever. (2 Peter 2:17)

carried.

Eph. 4:14• ¹⁴in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error; (Eph. 4:14)

trees.

Psa. 1:3• ³And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth. (Psa. 1:3)

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Psa. 37:2• ²for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb. (Psa. 37:2)

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Matt. 13:6• ⁶but when the sun rose they were burned up, and because of not having any root were dried up; (Matt. 13:6)

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Matt. 21:19‑20• ¹⁹And seeing one fig-tree in the way, he came to it and found on it nothing but leaves only. And he says to it, Let there be never more fruit of thee for ever. And the fig-tree was immediately dried up.
²⁰And when the disciples saw it, they wondered, saying, How immediately is the fig-tree dried up! (Matt. 21:19‑20)

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Mark 4:6• ⁶and when the sun arose it was burnt up, and because of its not having any root, it withered. (Mark 4:6)

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Mark 11:21• ²¹And Peter, remembering what Jesus had said, says to him, Rabbi, see, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is dried up. (Mark 11:21)

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Luke 8:6• ⁶and other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it was dried up because it had not moisture; (Luke 8:6)

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John 15:4‑6• ⁴Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. (John 15:4‑6)

twice.

1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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Heb. 6:4‑8• ⁴For it is impossible to renew again to repentance those once enlightened, and who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
⁵and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,
⁶and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.
⁷For ground which drinks the rain which comes often upon it, and produces useful herbs for those for whose sakes also it is tilled, partakes of blessing from God;
⁸but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned. (Heb. 6:4‑8)

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2 Peter 2:18‑20• ¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.
²⁰For if after having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled, they are subdued by these, their last state is worse than the first. (2 Peter 2:18‑20)

plucked.

2 Chron. 7:20• ²⁰then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. (2 Chron. 7:20)

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Ezek. 17:9• ⁹Say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither? All its fresh sprouting leaves shall wither, even without a great arm and many people to pluck it up by its roots. (Ezek. 17:9)

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Matt. 15:13• ¹³But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. (Matt. 15:13)

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Mark 11:20• ²⁰And passing by early in the morning they saw the fig-tree dried up from the roots. (Mark 11:20)

• They were present in their feasts of charity—the agape or love—feasts of the early Christians. It was with no godly purpose, however, of cultivating feelings of holy fellowship; for they were only feeding themselves without fear in the pastures of the faithful. (“The Epistle of Jude”)

• Another thing which characterizes them was the absence of all conscience, "feeding themselves without fear." (“Jude” by J.N. Darby)

• There is nothing more dangerous than a departure from the faith, the Christian faith; it is not only what man is and has done, but also what grace has made known, for which we are responsible, most of all if we turn from it in unbelief. What is so evil as apostasy? (“Jude 10-13” by W. Kelly)

• They were doubly dead, by nature and by their apostasy; (“JUDE” by J.N. Darby)

• It was the practice of the early saints, in the fervor of their first love, to gather together in happy fellowship at what was termed love-feasts; … these "dreamers" were found—having no title whatsoever to be present. They were therefore "spots," or, as some prefer to render, "sunken rocks," rocks which are peculiarly the danger of the unwary mariner. (article #86573)

• "Clouds without water"—clouds which as they rose upon the horizon promised fertilizing showers for the weary earth, but as they advanced were discovered to be "without water." (article #86573)

• "Autumnal trees without fruit." The season had come for fruits, but these trees, when discerned by the Spirit of God, were discovered to be fruitless. (article #86573)

• Trees, for a time making a fair show but bringing forth no fruit. (“The Course of the Evil: Jude 1:11-13” by H. Smith)

• Twice dead (by nature and by profession), and in the end rooted up. (“The Course of the Evil: Jude 1:11-13” by H. Smith)

• Clouds, giving promise of refreshing showers but in reality without water and the sport of every wind. (“The Course of the Evil: Jude 1:11-13” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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These are spotsb in your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by the winds; autumnalc trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

JND Translation Notes

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b

This word ordinarily means "a rock," and may allude to a sunken rock with the sea over it. This may be the meaning here.

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Some take it for trees whose fruit withers as in autumn.

W. Kelly Translation

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These are spotsa in your love-feasts, feasting together, fearlessly pasturing themselvesb; clouds without water carried along by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

WK Translation Notes

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a

Or, "hidden rocks." I think there cannot be a doubt of the article as the genuine reading, which gives vividness and objectivity to the word spilades, whether sunken rocks or blots be meant.

b

The KJV is not alone in support of its reading, inasmuch as the Syriac and ancient versions in general so take it.