These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
Parallel translations
- WEB These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
- KJV These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
- BSB These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of 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 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Prov 18:1An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
- Rom 8:9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
- Jas 3:15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
- Hos 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
- John 3:5–6Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
- Heb 10:25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
- Hos 4:14I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
- Isa 65:5who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
- Ezek 14:7“‘“For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.
- 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
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