Jude 1:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words], having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. ”

• Jude 1:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  These are murmurers - The word here used does not elsewhere occur, though the word “murmur” is frequent, Matthew 20:11 ; Luke 5:30 ; John 6:41 , John 6:43 , John 6:61 ; John 7:32 ; 1 Corin...

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• Jude 1:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The false brethren sin in like manner. In their dreamings, i.e. vain conceits (yielding to their own wayward fancies, Chase), they are licentious and rebellious. They despise the Lordship ( Jude 1:...

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• Jude 1:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  murmurers. Greek. gongustes. Only here. Compare John 6:41 . Acts 6:1 . complainers . Greek. mempsimoiros. Only here. after . App-104. great swelling . See 2 Peter 2:18 . having , &amp...

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• Jude 1:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. These are murmurers. They who indulge their depraved lusts, are hard to please, and morose, so that they are never satisfied. Hence it is, that they always murmur and complain, however ki...

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• Jude 1:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words , having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. These are murmurers - Grudgi...

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• Jude 1:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  These are murmurers, complainers, &c.— Having in the former verse finished the prophesy of Enoch, St. Jude now goes on in other phrases to describe those corrupt Christians. Some think that t...

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• Jude 1:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. Murmurers - muttering...

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• Jude 1:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Having men's persons in admiration because of advantage] RV 'shewing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.'

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• Jude 1:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (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” ( Jude 1:12 ; Jude 1:16 ; Ju...

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• Jude 1:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 36 THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO BALAAM: IMPIOUS DISCONTENT AND GREED OF THE LIBERTINES-THE APOSTOLIC WARNING RESPECTING THEM. Jude 1:16-18 . THESE words form the second part of the...

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• Jude 1:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Beware of the Touch of the Ungodly Jude 1:12-25 What traps and pitfalls beset us! How many have fallen who had as good or a better chance than we! The angels kept not their first estate; Adam,...

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• Jude 1:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chap...

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• Jude 1:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  These are murmurers ,.... That is, at others; secretly, inwardly, in a muttering way, grunting out their murmurs like swine; to which, for their filthiness and apostasy, false teachers may be filly...

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• Jude 1:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  These are murmurers Against God and men, never contented with the allotments of Providence, or with the conduct of any about them; complainers Μεμψιμοιροι, literally, complainers of their fate....

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• Jude 1:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exhortation to the Faithful; Conclusion. A. D.  66.       15 To execute judgment upon all, and to c...

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• Jude 1:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Murmurers, complainers; either these two words signify the same thing; or murmurers may be meant with relation to God's decrees, laws, providences, and his ordinations in the church or state,...

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• Jude 1:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  His Vivid Description Of Their Spiritual Bankruptcy ( Jude 1:12-16 ). Jude now vividly pictures their spiritual bankruptcy by means of vivid metaphors, and cites a well known prophecy from the Boo...

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• Jude 1:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Jude 1:12 . Spots .—Lit. σπιλάδες, rocks; Vulg. maculæ (compare 2 Peter 2:13 ). “Rocks in your love-feast, causing stumbling and shipwreck.” Feeding themselves...

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• Jude 1:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is...

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• Jude 1:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God's coming judgment upon the false teachers:

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• Jude 1:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:10 ; 1 Peter 1:14 ; 1 Peter 2:11 ; 1 Peter 4:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:5 ; 1 Timothy 6:5 ; 2 Peter 2:10 ; 2 Peter 2:1-3 ; 2 Peter 2:18 ; 2 Peter 3:3 ; 2 Timothy 4:3 ; Deutero...

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• Jude 1:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  These are murmurers — Against men. Complainers — Literally, complainers of their fate, against God. Walking — With regard to themselves. After their own foolish and mischievous desires. Having men'...

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