One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound wisdom.
Jude 1:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised These people create divisions and are worldly, not having the Spirit. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound wisdom.
They say, “Keep to yourself, don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you! ” These practices are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to enquire of me, I, the Lord, will answer him myself.
I will not punish your daughters when they act promiscuously or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.
I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your ancestors like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame, , and became abhorrent, like the thing they loved.
You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
Don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.
Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.