Jude 1:16 (DBY)

Passage

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

Nearby Context

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

Jude 1:15 to execute judgment against all; and to convict all the ungodly of them of all their works of ungodliness, which they have wrought ungodlily, and of all the hard [things] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

Jude 1:17 But *ye*, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Jude 1:18 that they said to you, that at [the] end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "murmurers", "complainers", "walking", "after", "lusts", "mouth", "speaks", and "swelling". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "murmurers" and "complainers", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 15's "to execute judgment against all and to..." into verse 17's "But ye beloved remember the words spoken...", so "murmurers" and "complainers" 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 "murmurers" and "complainers" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.