These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?
And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.”
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth. Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them. And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
Therefore it is against the Lord that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?”
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person.
Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.
And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land—
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