Jude 1:16 (YLT)

Passage

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

Nearby Context

Jude 1:14 And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam--Enoch--saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,

Jude 1:15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

Jude 1:17 and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Jude 1:18 that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "murmurers", "repiners", "desires", "walking", "mouth", "doth", "speak", and "great". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "murmurers" and "repiners", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

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