Jude 1:12

New American Bible - revised edition

These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:20

I will uproot the people from the land I gave and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. I will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

Job 8:17

About a heap of stones his roots are entwined; among the rocks he takes hold.

Psalm 1:3

He is like a tree planted near streams of water, that yields its fruit in season; Its leaves never wither; whatever he does prospers.

Psalm 37:2

Like grass they wither quickly; like green plants they wilt away.

Proverbs 25:14

Clouds and wind but no rain— the one who boasts of a gift not given.

Ezekiel 17:9

Say: Thus says the Lord God: Can it thrive? Will he not tear up its roots and strip its fruit? Then all its green leaves will wither— neither strong arm nor mighty nation is needed to uproot it.

Ezekiel 34:10

Thus says the Lord God: Look! I am coming against these shepherds. I will take my sheep out of their hand and put a stop to their shepherding my flock, so that these shepherds will no longer pasture them. I will deliver my flock from their mouths so it will not become their food.

Ezekiel 34:18

Was it not enough for you to graze on the best pasture, that you had to trample the rest of your pastures with your hooves? Or to drink the clearest water, that you had to pollute the rest with your hooves?

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them: To the shepherds, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds pasture the flock?

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live—oracle of the Lord God—because my sheep became plunder, because my sheep became food for wild beasts, for lack of a shepherd, because my shepherds did not look after my sheep, but pastured themselves and did not pasture my sheep,

Hosea 6:4

What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your loyalty is like morning mist, like the dew that disappears early.

Leviticus 14:43

If the infection breaks out once more in the house after the stones have been pulled out and the house has been scraped and replastered,

Matthew 13:6

and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots.

Matthew 15:13

He said in reply, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Mark 4:6

And when the sun rose, it was scorched and it withered for lack of roots.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.

Luke 21:34

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise

Luke 8:6

Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew, it withered for lack of moisture.

Ephesians 4:14

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the one who is self-indulgent is dead while she lives.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching. It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.