Jude 1:12 (KJV)

Passage

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Nearby Context

Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Woe unto them for they have gone..." into verse 13's "Raging waves of the sea foaming out...", so "spots" and "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 "feasts" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.