Jude 1:18-19

1:18 For they said to you, “In the end time there will come¹ scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”² 1:19 These people are divisive,³ worldly,⁴ devoid of the Spirit.⁵

Psalms 78:34-37

78:34 When he struck them down,⁶ they sought his favor;⁷

they turned back and longed for God.

78:35 They remembered that God was their protector,⁸

and that the sovereign God was their deliverer.⁹

78:36 But they deceived him with their words,¹⁰

and lied to him.¹¹

78:37 They were not really committed to him,¹²

and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

Psalms 106:12-13

106:12 They believed his promises;¹³

they sang praises to him.

106:13 They quickly forgot what he had done;¹⁴

they did not wait for his instructions.¹⁵

Jeremiah 3:10

3:10 In spite of all this,¹⁶ Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,”¹⁷ says the Lord.

Jeremiah 34:15

34:15 Recently, however, you yourselves¹⁸ showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own.¹⁹

Matthew 13:21

13:21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure;²⁰ when²¹ trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Matthew 13:2

13:2 And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while²² the whole crowd stood on the shore.

Matthew 2:20-22

2:20 saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.” 2:21 So²³ he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel. 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus²⁴ was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod,²⁵ he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

¹tn Grk “be.”

²tn Grk “going according to their own desires of ungodliness.”

³tn Grk “these are the ones who cause divisions.”

⁴tn Or “natural,” that is, living on the level of instincts, not on a spiritual level (the same word occurs in 1 Cor 2:14 as a description of nonbelievers).

⁵tn Grk “not having [the] Spirit.”

⁶tn Or “killed them,” that is, killed large numbers of them.

⁷tn Heb “they sought him.”

⁸tn Heb “my high rocky summit.”

⁹tn Heb “and [that] God Most High [was] their redeemer.”

¹⁰tn Heb “with their mouth.”

¹¹tn Heb “and with their tongue they lied to him.”

¹²tn Heb “and their heart was not firm with him.”

¹³tn Heb “his words.”

¹⁴tn Heb “his works.”

¹⁵tn Heb “his counsel.”

¹⁶tn Heb “And even in all this.”

¹⁷tn Heb “ has not turned back to me with all her heart but only in falsehood.”

¹⁸tn The presence of the independent pronoun in the Hebrew text is intended to contrast their actions with those of their ancestors.

¹⁹sn This refers to the temple. See Jer 7:10, 11, 14, 30 and see the translator’s note on 7:10 and the study note on 10:25 for the explanation of the idiom involved here.

²⁰tn Grk “is temporary.”

²¹tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

²²tn Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clause.

²³tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s instructions.

²⁴sn Archelaus took after his father Herod the Great in terms of cruelty and ruthlessness, so Joseph was afraid to go there. After further direction in a dream, he went instead to Galilee.

²⁵sn See the note on King Herod in 2:1.