12 These are the ones who are [a]hidden reefs (A)in your love feasts when they feast with you (B)without fear, like shepherds caring only for themselves; (C)clouds without water, (D)carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, [b]doubly dead, (E)uprooted; 13 (F)wild waves of the sea, churning up (G)their own shameful deeds like dirty foam; wandering stars, (H)for whom the [c]gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

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  1. Jude 1:12 Or stains
  2. Jude 1:12 Lit twice
  3. Jude 1:13 Or netherworld gloom

12 These are hidden reefs[a] (A)at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, (B)shepherds feeding themselves; (C)waterless clouds, (D)swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, (E)uprooted; 13 (F)wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of (G)their own shame; (H)wandering stars, (I)for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

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  1. Jude 1:12 Or are blemishes

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

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