The Apostates’ Doom

12 These people are dangerous reefs[a] at your love feasts(A) as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds;(B) trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.

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  1. 12 Or are like blemishes

12 These people are blemishes at your love feasts,(A) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.(B) They are clouds without rain,(C) blown along by the wind;(D) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted(E)—twice dead.

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