New Revised Standard Version
These are blemishes on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

Contemporary English Version
These people are filthy minded, and by their shameful and selfish actions they spoil the meals you eat together. They are like clouds blown along by the wind, but never bringing any rain. They are like leafless trees, uprooted and dead, and unable to produce fruit.

New American Bible
These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they carouse fearlessly and look after themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by winds, fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead and uprooted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots:

are spots.

2 Peter 2:13,14 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: . . .

feasts.

1 Corinthians 11:21,22 For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk. . . .

feeding.

Psalm 78:29-31 So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire: . . .

Isaiah 56:10-12 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams. . . .

Ezekiel 34:8,18 As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek after my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks: . . .

Luke 12:19,20,45 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

1 Thessalonians 5:6,7 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober. . . .

James 5:5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

clouds.

Proverbs 25:14 As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

Hosea 6:4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

2 Peter 2:17 These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

carried.

Ephesians 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

trees.

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Psalm 37:2 For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green herbs shall quickly fall.

Matthew 13:6 And when the sun was up they were scorched: and because they had not root, they withered away.

Matthew 21:19,20 And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he saith to it: May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away. . . .

Mark 4:6 And when the sun was risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Mark 11:21 And Peter remembering, said to him: Rabbi, behold the fig tree which thou didst curse is withered away.

Luke 8:6 And other some fell upon a rock. And as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

John 15:4-6 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. . . .

twice.

1 Timothy 5:6 For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

Hebrews 6:4-8 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, . . .

See on

2 Peter 2:18-20 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: . . .

plucked.

2 Chronicles 7:20 I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations.

Ezekiel 17:9 Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many people to pluck it up by the root?

Matthew 15:13 But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

Mark 11:20 And when they passed by in the morning they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.