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.
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Hidden rocks (σπιλαδες). Old word for rocks in the sea (covered by the water), as in Homer, here only in N.T. [Reference 2 Peter 2…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes
These are spots. See the notes on 2 Peter 2:13.
The word used by Peter, however, is not exactly the same as that used h…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
A threefold description of the ungodly, corresponding to the three examples just given. The divisions are clearly marked, each section beginning wi…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
But what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
Expositor'sBible Commentary
Now, with burning eloquence, Jude piles figure upon figure (six of them in all) to describe the errorists.
(1) The false teachers are “blemis…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
These are spots in your feasts of charity. Those who read, “among your charities,” do not, I think, sufficiently explain the true meaning.…
John Gill
JohnGill
These are spots in your feasts of charity
Or "love". The Jews speak (atwnmyhmd hytdweo) …
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
False teachers are dreamers; they greatly defile and grievously wound the soul. These teachers have a disturbed mind and a seditious spirit, forget…
A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson