Apostates Depraved and Doomed

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

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  1. Jude 1:12 stains, or hidden reefs
  2. Jude 1:12 NU, M along

12 These are the ones who are [a]hidden reefs (A)in your love feasts when they feast with you (B)without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; (C)clouds without water, (D)carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, [b]doubly dead, (E)uprooted;

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  1. Jude 1:12 Or stains
  2. Jude 1:12 Lit twice

12 These men are hidden reefs [elements of great danger to others] in your [a]love feasts when they feast together with you without fear, looking after [only] themselves; [they are like] clouds without water, swept along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted and lifeless;

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  1. Jude 1:12 The early church frequently met together for a communal meal followed by the Lord’s Supper.

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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12 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;

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17 For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: (A)“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

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17 For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such a (A)[a]declaration as this was made to Him by the (B)Majestic Glory: “This is [b]My beloved Son with whom I am well pleased”—

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  1. 2 Peter 1:17 Lit voice
  2. 2 Peter 1:17 Or My Son, My beloved, with

17 For when He was invested with honor and [the radiance of the [a]Shekinah] glory from God the Father, such a voice as this came to Him from the [splendid] Majestic Glory [in the bright cloud that overshadowed Him, saying], [b]“This is My Son, My Beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased and delighted”—(A)

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  1. 2 Peter 1:17 The word “Shekinah” does not appear in Scripture, but has been used by both Christians and Jews to describe the visible divine Presence of God (the brilliant light of the divine), in such things as the burning bush, the cloud and the pillar of fire that led the Hebrews in the wilderness, and the Presence of God that rested between the cherubim over the mercy seat of the ark.
  2. 2 Peter 1:17 With these words God affirms the deity of Jesus and His divine essence.

17 He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”[a](A)

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  1. 2 Peter 1:17 Matt. 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35

17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

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