16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;" haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts? Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called? However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But there also arose false prophets among the people, as among you also there will be false teachers, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. Many will follow their immoral{TR reads "destructive" instead of "immoral"} ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
To show partiality is not good; Yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Please don't let me respect any man's person, Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth. Therefore their people return to them, And they drink up waters of abundance. They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
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 who err in spirit shall come to understanding, and those who murmur shall receive instruction.
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."
But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.