Jude 1:11-17
1:11 Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path,
and because of greed
have abandoned themselves
to
Balaam’s error; hence,
they will certainly perish
in Korah’s rebellion.
1:12 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;
1:13 wild sea waves,
spewing out the foam of
their shame;
wayward stars
for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness
have been reserved.
1:14 Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even prophesied of them, saying, “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones,
1:15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
1:16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.
Exhortation to the Faithful
1:17 But you, dear friends – recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:6
1:6 You also know that
the angels who did not keep within their proper domain
but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept
in eternal chains
in utter
darkness, locked up
for the judgment of the great Day.
Jude 1:2
1:2 May mercy, peace, and love be lavished on you!
Jude 1:7
1:7 So also
Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns,
since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire
in a way similar to
these angels,
are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Jeremiah 8:2
8:2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars.
These are things they
adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance,
from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people
will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.
Jeremiah 9:14
9:14 Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to
the gods called Baal,
as their fathers
taught them to do.
Ezekiel 20:13
20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out
my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.
Ezekiel 20:16
20:16 I did this
because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.
Ezekiel 20:18
20:18 “‘But I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:24
20:24 I did this
because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on
their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 20:30
20:30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?
Ezekiel 20:1
Israel’s Rebellion
20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to seek the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.
Ezekiel 1:18
1:18 Their rims were high and awesome,
and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.