Jude 1:16

WEB

¹⁶These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

KJV

¹⁶These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

BSB

¹⁶^[+] These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

FBV

¹⁶Such people are grumblers, always complaining. They follow their own evil desires, speaking boastfully about themselves, and flattering others to get what they want.

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Extra References

2 Peter 2:18

¹⁸For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Philippians 2:14

¹⁴Do all things without complaining and arguing,

2 Peter 2:10

¹⁰but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,

1 Timothy 6:5

⁵constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

1 Peter 4:2

²that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

2 Peter 3:3

³knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

Jude 1:18

¹⁸They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

James 1:14-15

¹⁴But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. ¹⁵Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

1 Peter 2:11

¹¹Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

1 Corinthians 10:10

¹⁰Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.