These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Parallel translations
- WEB These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
- BSB These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.
- NKJV These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
- NASB These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
- NLT These people are the ones who are creating divisions among you. They follow their natural instincts because they do not have God’s Spirit in them.
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Quick answer
These are the ones causing divisions, governed by mere natural instincts, and lacking the Holy Spirit.
Overview
Jude exposes the true spiritual condition of the false teachers: they split the church, live by worldly impulses rather than God's truth, and, decisively, do not have the Spirit. Despite any claims to superior spirituality, they are not truly God's people, for the indwelling Spirit marks all who belong to Christ. This contrasts sharply with the Spirit-filled life Jude urges in the next verses.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 1 Cor 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Prov 18:1Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
- Rom 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
- Jas 3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
- Hos 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
- John 3:5–6Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
- Heb 10:25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
- Hos 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
- Isa 65:5Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
- Ezek 14:7For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
- 1 Cor 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
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