16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling `words'), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
For, uttering great swelling `words' of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:
Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, `the Lord' of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world `to be' rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats? Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called? Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in `the time of' your ignorance:
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;
But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.
and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.
That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.
They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth. Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full `cup' are drained by them. And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.
And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, He is gone in to lodge with a man that is a sinner.
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said unto them, Doth this cause you to stumble?
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.