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Jude 1:12 These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
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They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/jude/1.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />When these people eat with you in your fellowship meals commemorating the Lord’s love, they are like dangerous reefs that can shipwreck you. They are like shameless shepherds who care only for themselves. They are like clouds blowing over the land without giving any rain. They are like trees in autumn that are doubly dead, for they bear no fruit and have been pulled up by the roots.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jude/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jude/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/jude/1.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />These are the hidden reefs, feasting together <i>with you</i> fearlessly in your love feasts; shepherding themselves; clouds without water, being carried about by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice having died, having been uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jude/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds <i>they are</i> without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jude/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving <i>only</i> themselves. <i>They are</i> clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jude/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />These are the ones who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, <i>like shepherds</i> caring <i>only</i> for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jude/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jude/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jude/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jude/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />These men are hidden reefs [elements of great danger to others] in your 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 <i>and</i> lifeless;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jude/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jude/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />These are the ones who are like dangerous reefs at your love feasts. They feast with you, nurturing only themselves without fear. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead, pulled out by the roots; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jude/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jude/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />These people are filthy minded, and by their shameful and selfish actions they spoil the meals you eat together. They are like clouds blown along by the wind, but never bringing any rain. They are like leafless trees, uprooted and dead, and unable to produce fruit. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jude/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jude/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />These people are a disgrace at the special meals you share with other believers. They eat with you and don't feel ashamed. They are shepherds who care [only] for themselves. They are dry clouds blown around by the winds. They are withered, uprooted trees without any fruit. As a result, they have died twice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jude/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />With their shameless carousing they are like dirty spots in your fellowship meals. They take care only of themselves. They are like clouds carried along by the wind, but bringing no rain. They are like trees that bear no fruit, even in autumn, trees that have been pulled up by the roots and are completely dead. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jude/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jude/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jude/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit--twice dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jude/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jude/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about by winds; withered autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked out by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/jude/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jude/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jude/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />These are stains at your love-feasts, feasting together with you without fear, shepherding themselves; waterless clouds, being carried away by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, having died twice, having been uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/jude/1.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />These are the hidden reefs, feasting together <i>with you</i> fearlessly in your love feasts; shepherding themselves; clouds without water, being carried about by winds; autumnal trees without fruit, twice having died, having been uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jude/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jude/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />These are spots in your loves, feasting together fearlessly, taking care of themselves: clouds wanting water, carried about by winds; decayed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jude/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jude/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />These ones are defiled within their banquets, enjoying themselves and feeding themselves without fear; waterless clouds, which are tossed about by winds; autumn trees, unfruitful, twice dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jude/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jude/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />These are blemishes on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jude/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />These people are those who lead a wasteful, feasting life and are blemished; they do not shepherd themselves in reverence; they are clouds without rain, driven by winds; trees whose blossoms have withered, without fruit; having died a second time, pulled up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/jude/1.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />These are those who are defiled in their feasts and run riot while feeding themselves without fear, clouds without rain that wander with the wind; trees, whose fruit has died, who are without fruit, which have died twice and they have pulled up from their roots,<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/jude/1.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />These, while feasting with you, are spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear; they are clouds without water, driven along by winds; trees of autumn, without fruit, twice dead, torn up by the roots: -<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/jude/1.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />These are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting along with you without fear shepherdizing themselves, clouds without water, driven away by the winds; withered trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/jude/1.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />These are in your feasts of love, as sunken rocks; though joining in your banquet, they feed themselves fearlessly; clouds without water carried about by the winds; trees untimely withering, fruitless, twice dead, rooted up;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/jude/1.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />they are a disgrace to your love-feasts, they indulge themselves at your festivals without reserve: clouds without water, transported with every wind: trees whose fruit soon withers and is useless, twice dead and rooted up:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/jude/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/jude/1.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />These are the hidden rocks in your love-feasts, feasting sumptuously together, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without water, borne along by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/jude/1.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />These are spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear, when they are feasting with you: clouds without water, carried about by the winds; trees withered <i>and</i> without fruit, twice dead <i>and</i> rooted up; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jude/1-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B4ISOUBwbKU?start=142" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jude/1.htm">God's Judgment on the Ungodly</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/3778.htm" title="3778: Houtoi (DPro-NMP) -- This; he, she, it. ">These men</a> <a href="/greek/1510.htm" title="1510: eisin (V-PIA-3P) -- I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.">are</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: hoi (Art-NMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/4694.htm" title="4694: spilades (N-NFP) -- A hidden rock; fig: a flaw, stigma. Of uncertain derivation; a ledge or reef of rock in the sea.">hidden reefs</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/4771.htm" title="4771: hymōn (PPro-G2P) -- You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.">your</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tais (Art-DFP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/26.htm" title="26: agapais (N-DFP) -- From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.">love feasts,</a> <a href="/greek/870.htm" title="870: aphobōs (Adv) -- Fearlessly, shamelessly, securely, tranquilly. Adverb from a compound of a and phobos; fearlessly.">shamelessly</a> <a href="/greek/4910.htm" title="4910: syneuōchoumenoi (V-PPM/P-NMP) -- To feast sumptuously with. ">feasting with you</a> <a href="/greek/4165.htm" title="4165: poimainontes (V-PPA-NMP) -- To shepherd, tend, herd; hence: I rule, govern. From poimen; to tend as a shepherd of.">but shepherding</a> <a href="/greek/1438.htm" title="1438: heautous (RefPro-AM3P) -- Himself, herself, itself. ">only themselves.</a> <a href="/greek/3507.htm" title="3507: nephelai (N-NFP) -- A cloud. From nephos; properly, cloudiness, i.e. a cloud.">They are clouds</a> <a href="/greek/504.htm" title="504: anydroi (Adj-NFP) -- Without water, dry; subst: dry places, desert. Waterless, i.e. Dry.">without water,</a> <a href="/greek/3911.htm" title="3911: parapheromenai (V-PPM/P-NFP) -- From para and phero; to bear along or aside, i.e. Carry off; by implication, to avert.">carried along</a> <a href="/greek/5259.htm" title="5259: hypo (Prep) -- A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).">by</a> <a href="/greek/417.htm" title="417: anemōn (N-GMP) -- The wind; fig: applied to empty doctrines. From the base of aer; wind; by implication, quarters.">the wind;</a> <a href="/greek/175.htm" title="175: akarpa (Adj-NNP) -- Unfruitful, barren, profitless. Barren.">fruitless</a> <a href="/greek/1186.htm" title="1186: dendra (N-NNP) -- A tree. Probably from drus; a tree.">trees</a> <a href="/greek/5352.htm" title="5352: phthinopōrina (Adj-NNP) -- Autumnal, in autumn, when fruit is expected. From derivative of phthino and opora; autumnal.">in autumn,</a> <a href="/greek/1364.htm" title="1364: dis (Adv) -- Twice, entirely, utterly. Adverb from duo; twice.">twice</a> <a href="/greek/599.htm" title="599: apothanonta (V-APA-NNP) -- To be dying, be about to die, wither, decay. From apo and thnesko; to die off.">dead</a> <a href="/greek/1610.htm" title="1610: ekrizōthenta (V-APP-NNP) -- To root out, pluck up by the roots. From ek and rhizoo; to uproot.">after being uprooted.</a> </span> <span class="reftext">13</span>They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13-17</a></span><br />The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. / Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. / They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/7-15.htm">Matthew 7:15-20</a></span><br />Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. / By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? / Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/34-2.htm">Ezekiel 34:2-10</a></span><br />“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? / You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock. / You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/11-20.htm">1 Corinthians 11:20-22</a></span><br />Now then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat. / For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk. / Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/25-14.htm">Proverbs 25:14</a></span><br />Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/56-10.htm">Isaiah 56:10-11</a></span><br />Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber. / Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/3-18.htm">Philippians 3:18-19</a></span><br />For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. / Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/23-1.htm">Jeremiah 23:1-2</a></span><br />“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD. / Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/16-17.htm">Romans 16:17-18</a></span><br />Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them. / For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/4-1.htm">1 Timothy 4:1-2</a></span><br />Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, / influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/6-4.htm">Hosea 6:4</a></span><br />What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-1.htm">2 Timothy 3:1-5</a></span><br />But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/11-17.htm">Zechariah 11:17</a></span><br />Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/2-18.htm">Colossians 2:18-19</a></span><br />Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind. / He has lost connection to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and knit together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it to grow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/3-5.htm">Micah 3:5-6</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths: / Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">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 wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;</p><p class="hdg">are spots.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13,14</a></b></br> And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, <i>as</i> they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots <i>they are</i> and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; … </p><p class="hdg">feasts.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/11-21.htm">1 Corinthians 11:21,22</a></b></br> For in eating every one taketh before <i>other</i> his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken… </p><p class="hdg">feeding.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/78-29.htm">Psalm 78:29-31</a></b></br> So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/56-10.htm">Isaiah 56:10-12</a></b></br> His watchmen <i>are</i> blind: they are all ignorant, they <i>are</i> all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/34-8.htm">Ezekiel 34:8,18</a></b></br> <i>As</i> I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because <i>there was</i> no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; … </p><p class="hdg">clouds.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/25-14.htm">Proverbs 25:14</a></b></br> Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift <i>is like</i> clouds and wind without rain.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/6-4.htm">Hosea 6:4</a></b></br> O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness <i>is</i> as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">2 Peter 2:17</a></b></br> These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.</p><p class="hdg">carried.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/4-14.htm">Ephesians 4:14</a></b></br> That we <i>henceforth</i> be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, <i>and</i> cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;</p><p class="hdg">trees.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/1-3.htm">Psalm 1:3</a></b></br> And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/37-2.htm">Psalm 37:2</a></b></br> For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/13-6.htm">Matthew 13:6</a></b></br> And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.</p><p class="hdg">twice.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_timothy/5-6.htm">1 Timothy 5:6</a></b></br> But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/james/5-7.htm">Autumn</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-8.htm">Barren</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-7.htm">Caring</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-17.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/3_john/1-6.htm">Charity</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-17.htm">Clouds</a> <a href="/1_john/3-14.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/1_john/4-18.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/luke/20-46.htm">Feasts</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-2.htm">Feed</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">Feeding</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-8.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-8.htm">Hidden</a> <a href="/jude/1-2.htm">Love</a> <a href="/1_john/2-17.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/galatians/4-15.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-38.htm">Rocks</a> <a href="/acts/27-29.htm">Rocky</a> <a href="/colossians/2-7.htm">Roots</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-10.htm">Share</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-2.htm">Shepherds</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">Spots</a> <a href="/job/38-6.htm">Sunken</a> <a href="/jude/1-11.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/john/12-13.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/titus/3-10.htm">Twice</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-6.htm">Unrestrained</a> <a href="/1_john/5-8.htm">Water</a> <a href="/james/3-4.htm">Winds</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-24.htm">Withered</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-24.htm">Withereth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/11-14.htm">Autumn</a> <a href="/genesis/11-30.htm">Barren</a> <a href="/genesis/25-34.htm">Caring</a> <a href="/revelation/6-2.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/revelation/2-19.htm">Charity</a> <a href="/revelation/1-7.htm">Clouds</a> <a href="/revelation/1-5.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/jude/1-23.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/revelation/3-20.htm">Feast</a> <a href="/leviticus/23-2.htm">Feasts</a> <a href="/revelation/7-17.htm">Feed</a> <a href="/genesis/4-2.htm">Feeding</a> <a href="/revelation/2-7.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/revelation/2-17.htm">Hidden</a> <a href="/jude/1-21.htm">Love</a> <a href="/revelation/4-11.htm">Pleasure</a> <a href="/jude/1-23.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/revelation/6-15.htm">Rocks</a> <a href="/numbers/23-9.htm">Rocky</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-22.htm">Roots</a> <a href="/revelation/1-9.htm">Share</a> <a href="/revelation/7-17.htm">Shepherds</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-38.htm">Spots</a> <a href="/job/38-6.htm">Sunken</a> <a href="/jude/1-16.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/revelation/7-3.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/revelation/9-16.htm">Twice</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-18.htm">Unrestrained</a> <a href="/revelation/8-10.htm">Water</a> <a href="/revelation/7-1.htm">Winds</a> <a href="/genesis/41-23.htm">Withered</a> <a href="/job/8-12.htm">Withereth</a><div class="vheading2">Jude 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jude/1-1.htm">He exhorts them to be constant in the profession of the faith.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jude/1-4.htm">false teachers crept in to seduce them, for whose evil doctrine a horrible punishment is prepared;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jude/1-20.htm">whereas the godly may persevere, grow in grace, and keep the faith.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the context of the early church, "love feasts" were communal meals shared among believers, often associated with the Lord's Supper. These gatherings were meant to foster unity and love, but the presence of false teachers posed a threat to the spiritual health of the community. The imagery of hidden reefs emphasizes the subtle and destructive nature of these individuals, who could cause spiritual ruin if not identified and addressed.<p><b>shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves</b><br>The false teachers are described as participating in the communal meals without shame, highlighting their hypocrisy and self-centeredness. The role of a shepherd is to care for the flock, but these individuals are only concerned with their own interests. This behavior contrasts sharply with the example of Christ, the Good Shepherd, who lays down His life for the sheep (<a href="/john/10-11.htm">John 10:11</a>). The self-serving nature of these men is a warning against leaders who prioritize personal gain over the well-being of the community.<p><b>They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind</b><br>Clouds without water promise rain but deliver none, symbolizing the emptiness and deceit of the false teachers' teachings. They appear to offer spiritual nourishment but fail to provide any real substance. The imagery of being "carried along by the wind" suggests instability and lack of direction, echoing <a href="/ephesians/4-14.htm">Ephesians 4:14</a>, which warns against being "tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine." This phrase underscores the futility and danger of following teachings that lack the truth of God's Word.<p><b>fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted</b><br>Fruitless trees in autumn are expected to bear fruit, but these do not, symbolizing the lack of spiritual fruit in the lives of the false teachers. The phrase "twice dead" may refer to their spiritual barrenness and ultimate judgment. Being "uprooted" suggests a finality in their rejection and removal from the community of believers. This imagery aligns with Jesus' teaching in <a href="/matthew/7-19.htm">Matthew 7:19</a>, where trees that do not bear good fruit are cut down and thrown into the fire, emphasizing the seriousness of spiritual fruitlessness and the consequences of leading others astray.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jude.htm">Jude</a></b><br>The author of the epistle, traditionally identified as Jude, the brother of James and Jesus. He writes to warn the church about false teachers.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/f/false_teachers.htm">False Teachers</a></b><br>Individuals within the church who are leading others astray with their deceptive teachings and immoral behavior.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/l/love_feasts.htm">Love Feasts</a></b><br>Early Christian communal meals that were meant to promote fellowship and unity among believers.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/h/hidden_reefs.htm">Hidden Reefs</a></b><br>A metaphor used by Jude to describe the danger posed by false teachers, as reefs can cause shipwrecks if not seen.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/a/autumn_trees.htm">Autumn Trees</a></b><br>Another metaphor indicating barrenness and lack of spiritual fruit, emphasizing the spiritual deadness of the false teachers.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/b/beware_of_hidden_dangers.htm">Beware of Hidden Dangers</a></b><br>Just as hidden reefs can cause shipwrecks, false teachings can lead to spiritual ruin. Be vigilant in discerning truth from error.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_fruit.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Fruit</a></b><br>True faith is evidenced by spiritual fruit. Evaluate teachings and leaders by the fruit they produce in their lives and the lives of others.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/selfish_leadership.htm">Selfish Leadership</a></b><br>Leaders who shepherd only themselves are not true shepherds. True Christian leadership is marked by selflessness and service to others.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_deceptive_nature_of_false_promises.htm">The Deceptive Nature of False Promises</a></b><br>Like clouds without water, false teachers promise much but deliver nothing. Seek teachings that are grounded in Scripture and lead to spiritual growth.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_vigilance.htm">Community Vigilance</a></b><br>The early church's love feasts were meant for unity, but they were being corrupted. Maintain the purity and purpose of Christian fellowship by addressing issues of false teaching and immorality.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jude_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jude 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/theme_of_'clouds_without_water'.htm">What is the theme of "Clouds Without Water"?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_a_mourner's_bench.htm">What is the theme of 'Clouds Without Water'?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_a_biblical_love_feast.htm">What is a biblical love feast?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/celebrate_with_the_happy.htm">Do you celebrate with those who are happy?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jude/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12-19) Three-fold description of the ungodly, corresponding to the three examples just given. The divisions are clearly marked, each section beginning with "These are" (<a href="/jude/1-12.htm" title2="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 wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;">Jude 1:12</a>; <a href="/jude/1-16.htm" title2="These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.">Jude 1:16</a>; <a href="/jude/1-19.htm" title2="These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.">Jude 1:19</a>).<p>(12-15) Description corresponding to Cain.<p>(12) <span class= "bld">These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you.</span>--Rather, <span class= "ital">These are the rocks in your feasts of charity, banqueting with you fearlessly</span> (see next Note); or, <span class= "ital">These are they who banquet together fearlessly, rocks in your feasts of charity.</span> The former is preferable. But in any case we must probably read <span class= "ital">rocks</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e., </span>that on which those who meet them at your love-feasts will be wrecked (see Notes on <a href="/context/1_corinthians/11-20.htm" title2="When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.">1Corinthians 11:20-22</a>)--not "spots," which is borrowed from <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm" title2="And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;">2Peter 2:13</a>. But it is just possible that as <span class= "ital">spiloi, </span>St. Peter's word, may mean either "spots" or "rocks" (though most commonly the former), so St. Jude's word (<span class= "ital">spilades</span>) may mean either "spots" or "rocks" (though almost invariably the latter). In an Orphic poem of the fourth century, <span class= "ital">spilades</span> means "spots "; but this is rather late authority for its use in the first century. Here "rocks" is the safer translation. St. Peter is dwelling on the sensuality of these sinners, and for him "spots" is the more obvious metaphor. St. Jude, in tracing an analogy between them and Cain, would be more likely to select "rocks." These libertines, like Cain, turned the ordinances of religion into selfishness and sin: both, like sunken rocks, destroyed those who unsuspectingly approached them. On the difference of reading respecting the word for "feasts of charity," or "love-feasts," see Note on <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm" title2="And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;">2Peter 2:13</a>. Possibly the name <span class= "ital">Agapae</span> for such feasts comes from this passage. Had it been common when St. Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 11, he would probably have made a point of it; love-feasts in which there was no love. (Comp. <a href="/1_peter/5-14.htm" title2="Greet you one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.">1Peter 5:14</a>.) . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jude/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 12, 13.</span> - The next two verses carry on the description of the men in a running fire of epithets and figures, short, sharp, and piercing, corresponding also at certain points with <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13-17</a>. <span class="cmt_word">These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear.</span> What is referred to appears not to be ordinary friendly gatherings or occasions for the interchange of affection, but the well-known <span class="accented">agapae</span>, or love-feasts, of the primitive Church, the meals provided in connection with the Lord's Supper, at which rich and poor sat down together. In adopting the rendering "spots," the English Version follows Tyndale, Cranmer, the Genevan, and the Rhemish, and is followed by some good interpreters on the ground that the term, though formally different, is essentially the same as that in <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13</a>. The word itself, however, properly means "rocks," and therefore the point may be that their immoral conduct makes these men like treacherous reefs, on which their fellows make shipwreck. So the Revised Version gives "hidden rocks" in the text, and transfers "spots" to the margin. The "without fear," which is usually attached to the third clause, is connected by some with the second, in which case it expresses the reckless, irreverent spirit in which these men joined in the sacred <span class="accented">agape.</span> The last clause, "feeding [or, 'pasturing'] themselves," describes them further as having no regard to the proper object of these love-feasts in ministering to Christian fellowship and the holy sense of brotherhood, but as using them simply as a means for the saris-faction of their own appetites and the furtherance of their own base ends. Compare the evils referred to by Paul in <a href="/1_corinthians/11-21.htm">1 Corinthians 11:21</a>, and the description of the shepherds in <a href="/ezekiel/34.htm">Ezekiel 34</a>, and <a href="/isaiah/56-11.htm">Isaiah 56:11</a>. "They are like shepherds," says Humphry, "that have themselves for their flocks, feasting themselves, not their sheep, and doing this without fear of the chief Shepherd, who has his eye upon them." <span class="cmt_word">Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds;</span> or, <span class="accented">carried past by winds.</span> Like rainless clouds, the sport of the uncertain breezes, yielding nothing for the fruitfulness of earth, these empty, volatile, inconstant men disappoint the expectation of the Church and do it no service. Trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. The Authorized Version is less happy than usual in its rendering of the first clause. The Revised Version, in adopting "autumn trees" instead of "trees whose fruit withereth," returns to the renderings of the earlier versions, Wickliffe giving "harvest trees," Tyndale and Cranmer "trees without fruit at gathering-time," and the Rhemish "trees of autumn." The idea of <span class="accented">uselessness</span> and <span class="accented">unfruitfulness</span>, which was expressed in the previous figure, is repeated, but in a more absolute form, in this new figure. The late autumn is not the time, from the Eastern point of view, for the putting forth of fruit. The tree then becomes bare, barren, leafless. So is it with these men. Nor is it only that they have no fruit to show. The capacity of fruitfulness is extinct within them. The possibility of recovering it is gone from them. They are as dead to all good service as trees are which are rooted out as hopelessly useless. The phrase, "twice dead," may mean no more than "utterly dead." The point, however, is rather this - that they are dead, not only in respect of barrenness - which is a death in life - but in respect of the extinction of all vitality. <span class="cmt_word">Raging</span> (or, <span class="accented">wild</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;</span> or <span class="accented">shames</span>, as the original gives it; that is to say, <span class="accented">shameful deeds</span>, or, it may be, the <span class="accented">degrading lusts</span> which inspire their unlicensed life (Huther). This comparison recalls at once the figure in <a href="/isaiah/57-20.htm">Isaiah 57:20</a>. <span class="cmt_word">Wandering stars, to whom is</span> (or, <span class="accented">has been</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.</span> In the Book of Enoch (chapter 18:14) the angel shows the prophet "a prison for the stars of heaven, and for the host of heaven," and in the next verse it is explained that "the stars that roll over the fire are they who have transgressed the command of God before their rising, because they did not come forth in their time." It is possible that Jude had this in mind here, as the language of earlier chapters of the same book may have suggested others of Jude's figures. If the "wandering stars" are to be identified with any particular order of the heavenly bodies, it will be with the comets rather than the planets, the movements of the former seeming, to the common eye, so much the more erratic. The doom which is declared to be in reserve, no doubt takes its form so far from the immediate figure of the comet vanishing into the unseen. But the idea expressed is not so much that of suddenness as that of certainty and irreversibility. It is the doom which Christ himself pronounces to be <span class="accented">prepared</span> (<a href="/matthew/25-41.htm">Matthew 25:41</a>), and, therefore, inevitable and perpetual. In confirmation of this statement of the certainty of the doom, the readers are next reminded of the Lord's judicial coming, and of that as the subject of prophecy. The prophecy in question, though not one of those recorded in the canonical Hebrew Scriptures, seems to have been familiar enough to the readers to make it a natural and pertinent thing to quote it. So Paul cites heathen authors or common popular sayings in support of his statements. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jude/1-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">These [men]</span><br /><span class="grk">Οὗτοί</span> <span class="translit">(Houtoi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3778.htm">Strong's 3778: </a> </span><span class="str2">This; he, she, it. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">are</span><br /><span class="grk">εἰσιν</span> <span class="translit">(eisin)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1510.htm">Strong's 1510: </a> </span><span class="str2">I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the</span><br /><span class="grk">οἱ</span> <span class="translit">(hoi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">hidden reefs</span><br /><span class="grk">σπιλάδες</span> <span class="translit">(spilades)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4694.htm">Strong's 4694: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hidden rock; fig: a flaw, stigma. Of uncertain derivation; a ledge or reef of rock in the sea.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐν</span> <span class="translit">(en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> </span><span class="str2">In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your</span><br /><span class="grk">ὑμῶν</span> <span class="translit">(hymōn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4771.htm">Strong's 4771: </a> </span><span class="str2">You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">love feasts,</span><br /><span class="grk">ἀγάπαις</span> <span class="translit">(agapais)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Feminine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_26.htm">Strong's 26: </a> </span><span class="str2">From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">shamelessly</span><br /><span class="grk">ἀφόβως</span> <span class="translit">(aphobōs)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_870.htm">Strong's 870: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fearlessly, shamelessly, securely, tranquilly. Adverb from a compound of a and phobos; fearlessly.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">feasting [with you]</span><br /><span class="grk">συνευωχούμενοι</span> <span class="translit">(syneuōchoumenoi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4910.htm">Strong's 4910: </a> </span><span class="str2">To feast sumptuously with. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">[but] shepherding</span><br /><span class="grk">ποιμαίνοντες</span> <span class="translit">(poimainontes)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_4165.htm">Strong's 4165: </a> </span><span class="str2">To shepherd, tend, herd; hence: I rule, govern. From poimen; to tend as a shepherd of.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[only] themselves.</span><br /><span class="grk">ἑαυτοὺς</span> <span class="translit">(heautous)</span><br /><span class="parse">Reflexive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1438.htm">Strong's 1438: </a> </span><span class="str2">Himself, herself, itself. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">[They are] clouds</span><br /><span class="grk">νεφέλαι</span> <span class="translit">(nephelai)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3507.htm">Strong's 3507: </a> </span><span class="str2">A cloud. From nephos; properly, cloudiness, i.e. a cloud.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">without water,</span><br /><span class="grk">ἄνυδροι</span> <span class="translit">(anydroi)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Nominative Feminine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_504.htm">Strong's 504: </a> </span><span class="str2">Without water, dry; subst: dry places, desert. Waterless, i.e. Dry.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">carried along</span><br /><span class="grk">παραφερόμεναι</span> <span class="translit">(parapheromenai)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Feminine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3911.htm">Strong's 3911: </a> </span><span class="str2">From para and phero; to bear along or aside, i.e. Carry off; by implication, to avert.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by</span><br /><span class="grk">ὑπὸ</span> <span class="translit">(hypo)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5259.htm">Strong's 5259: </a> </span><span class="str2">A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[the] wind;</span><br /><span class="grk">ἀνέμων</span> <span class="translit">(anemōn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_417.htm">Strong's 417: </a> </span><span class="str2">The wind; fig: applied to empty doctrines. From the base of aer; wind; by implication, quarters.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">fruitless</span><br /><span class="grk">ἄκαρπα</span> <span class="translit">(akarpa)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_175.htm">Strong's 175: </a> </span><span class="str2">Unfruitful, barren, profitless. Barren.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">trees</span><br /><span class="grk">δένδρα</span> <span class="translit">(dendra)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1186.htm">Strong's 1186: </a> </span><span class="str2">A tree. Probably from drus; a tree.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in autumn,</span><br /><span class="grk">φθινοπωρινὰ</span> <span class="translit">(phthinopōrina)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_5352.htm">Strong's 5352: </a> </span><span class="str2">Autumnal, in autumn, when fruit is expected. From derivative of phthino and opora; autumnal.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">twice</span><br /><span class="grk">δὶς</span> <span class="translit">(dis)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1364.htm">Strong's 1364: </a> </span><span class="str2">Twice, entirely, utterly. Adverb from duo; twice.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">dead</span><br /><span class="grk">ἀποθανόντα</span> <span class="translit">(apothanonta)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_599.htm">Strong's 599: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be dying, be about to die, wither, decay. From apo and thnesko; to die off.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">after being uprooted.</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐκριζωθέντα</span> <span class="translit">(ekrizōthenta)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1610.htm">Strong's 1610: </a> </span><span class="str2">To root out, pluck up by the roots. 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