Jude 1:12 (LSB)

Passage

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Nearby Context

Jude 1:10 But these men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have poured themselves into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Jude 1:12 These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Jude 1:13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:14 But Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, also prophesied about these men, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "hidden", "reefs", "love", "feasts", "without", "fear", and "caring". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "hidden" and "reefs", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Woe to them For they have gone..." into verse 13's "wild waves of the sea casting up...", so "hidden" and "reefs" 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 "hidden" and "reefs" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.