Jude 1:12

New Century Version

They are like dirty spots in your special Christian meals you share. They eat with you and have no fear, caring only for themselves. They are clouds without rain, which the wind blows around. They are autumn trees without fruit that are pulled out of the ground. So they are twice dead.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:20

If you do, I will take the Israelites out of my land, the land I have given them, and I will leave this Temple that I have made holy. All the nations will make fun of it and speak evil about it.

Job 8:17

They wrap their roots around a pile of rocks and look for a place among the stones.

Psalm 1:3

They are strong, like a tree planted by a river. The tree produces fruit in season, and its leaves don’t die. Everything they do will succeed.

Psalm 37:2

because like the grass, they will soon dry up. Like green plants, they will soon die away.

Proverbs 25:14

People who brag about gifts they never give are like clouds and wind that give no rain.

Ezekiel 17:9

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: The vine will not continue to grow. The first eagle will pull up the vine’s roots and strip off its fruit. Then the vine and all its new leaves will dry up and die. It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull the vine up by its roots.

Ezekiel 34:10

This is what the Lord God says: I am against the shepherds. I will blame them for what has happened to my sheep and will not let them tend the flock anymore. Then the shepherds will stop feeding themselves, and I will take my flock from their mouths so they will no longer be their food.

Ezekiel 34:18

Is it not enough for you to eat grass in the good land? Must you crush the rest of the grass with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you make the rest of the water muddy with your feet?

Ezekiel 34:2

“Human, prophesy against the leaders of Israel, who are like shepherds. Prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Lord God says: How terrible it will be for the shepherds of Israel who feed only themselves! Why don’t the shepherds feed the flock?

Ezekiel 34:8

As surely as I live, my flock has been caught and eaten by all the wild animals, because the flock has no shepherd. The shepherds did not search for my flock. No, they fed themselves instead of my flock.

Hosea 6:4

The Lord says, “Israel, what should I do with you? Judah, what should I do with you? Your faithfulness is like a morning mist, like the dew that goes away early in the day.

Leviticus 14:43

“Suppose a person has taken away the old stones and plaster and put in new stones and plaster. If mildew again appears in his house,

Matthew 13:6

But when the sun rose, the plants dried up, because they did not have deep roots.

Matthew 15:13

Jesus answered, “Every plant that my Father in heaven has not planted himself will be pulled up by the roots.

Mark 4:6

But when the sun rose, the plants dried up because they did not have deep roots.

Luke 12:45

But suppose the servant thinks to himself, ‘My master will not come back soon,’ and he begins to beat the other servants, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

Luke 16:19

Jesus said, “There was a rich man who always dressed in the finest clothes and lived in luxury every day.

Luke 21:34

“Be careful not to spend your time feasting, drinking, or worrying about worldly things. If you do, that day might come on you suddenly,

Luke 8:6

Some seed fell on rock, and when it began to grow, it died because it had no water.

Ephesians 4:14

Then we will no longer be babies. We will not be tossed about like a ship that the waves carry one way and then another. We will not be influenced by every new teaching we hear from people who are trying to fool us. They make plans and try any kind of trick to fool people into following the wrong path.

Philippians 3:19

In the end, they will be destroyed. They do whatever their bodies want, they are proud of their shameful acts, and they think only about earthly things.

1 Timothy 5:6

But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is alive.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Your hearts should be strengthened by God’s grace, not by obeying rules about foods, which do not help those who obey them.

James 5:5

Your life on earth was full of rich living and pleasing yourselves with everything you wanted. You made yourselves fat, like an animal ready to be killed.