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Jude 16-18
New Catholic Bible
Jude 16-18
New Catholic Bible
16 These are grumblers and fault-finders. They indulge their own passions,[a] and their mouths are full of bombastic talk as they flatter others in order to achieve their own ends.
17 Appeal to the Faithful. But you, dear friends, must remember the predictions made by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.[b] 18 For they said to you, “In the final age there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly passions.”[c]
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- Jude 1:16 These are . . . passions: suggested by Enoch 5:5.
- Jude 1:17 This is a reference to the apostolic preaching received through tradition, to which Jude alluded in v. 3.
- Jude 1:18 Right from the start, the apostolic catechesis had announced that Christians should not be astonished at the appearance of men full of delirium (see Acts 20:29-30). In the final age . . . ungodly passions: this does not seem to be an exact Scripture citation, but see Acts 20:29-31; 1 Tim 4:1; 2 Tim 3:1-5; 4:3; 2 Pet 3:3; see also Mt 24:24; Mk 13:22.
