He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.
Jude 1:19 - Revised Standard Version It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It is these who are [agitators] setting up distinctions and causing divisions–merely sensual [creatures, carnal, worldly-minded people], devoid of the [Holy] Spirit and destitute of any higher spiritual life. American Standard Version (1901) These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit. Common English Bible These people create divisions. Since they don’t have the Spirit, they are worldly. Catholic Public Domain Version These are the ones who segregate themselves; they are animals, not having the Spirit. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version These are they, who separate themselves, sensual men, having not the Spirit. |
He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.
who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set apart from you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.
For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to inquire for himself of me, I the Lord will answer him myself;
I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Baal, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
But you are not in the flesh, you are in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Any one who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own;
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
This wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.