Jude 1:12 (DBY)

Passage

These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

Nearby Context

Jude 1:10 But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.

Jude 1:11 Woe to them! because they have gone in the way of Cain, and given themselves up to the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in your love-feasts, feasting together [with you] without fear, pasturing themselves; clouds without water, carried along by [the] winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

Jude 1:13 raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity.

Jude 1:14 And Enoch, [the] seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord has come amidst his holy myriads,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "spots", "love-feasts", "feasting", "together", "without", "fear", "pasturing", and "themselves". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "spots" and "love-feasts", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Woe to them because they have gone..." into verse 13's "raging waves of the sea foaming out...", so "spots" and "love-feasts" belong inside that flow. In Jude context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "spots" and "love-feasts" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.