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Jude 1:8

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Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
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  1. Hebrews 13:17Rank 1 from verse 8
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    17Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

  2. 2 Peter 2:10–12Rank 2 from verse 8
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    10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

    11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

    12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

  3. 1 Peter 2:17Rank 3 from verse 8
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    17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

  4. 1 Timothy 1:10Rank 4 from verse 8
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    10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

  5. Exodus 22:28Rank 5 from verse 8
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    28¶ Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

  6. 1 Corinthians 3:17Rank 6 from verse 8
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    17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

  7. Ecclesiastes 10:20Rank 7 from verse 8
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    20¶ Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

  8. Jude 1:9–10Rank 8 from verse 8
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    9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

    10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

  9. Numbers 16:3Rank 9 from verse 8
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    3And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?

  10. Acts 23:5Rank 10 from verse 8
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    5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

  11. Acts 7:39Rank 11 from verse 8
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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

  12. Luke 19:14Rank 12 from verse 8
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    14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

  13. Proverbs 30:11Rank 13 from verse 8
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    11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

  14. Psalms 2:1–6Rank 14 from verse 8
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    1WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

    2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

    3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

    4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

    5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

    6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

  15. 1 Thessalonians 4:8Rank 15 from verse 8
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    8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

  16. Acts 7:27Rank 16 from verse 8
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    27But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

  17. Jeremiah 38:25–28Rank 17 from verse 8
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    25But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

    26Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.

    27Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

    28So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

  18. Proverbs 30:17Rank 18 from verse 8
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    17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

  19. Psalms 12:3–4Rank 19 from verse 8
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    3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

    4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

  20. Numbers 16:12–13Rank 20 from verse 8
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    12¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

    13Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

  21. Genesis 3:5Rank 21 from verse 8
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    5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

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Jude 1:8

COMBINED MEANING

likewise

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Sense 1: In the same, similar, or corresponding manner. Sense 2: In a matching case.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

filthy

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Sense 1: Dirty, foul, or unclean. Sense 2: Morally polluted or defiled. Sense 3: Obtained by base or dishonest means.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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dominion

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Sense 1: Rule, authority, mastery, power, or controlling sway over persons, creatures, conduct, or conditions. Sense 2: The realm or territory under such rule.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1:3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

1:4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

1:5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

1:6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

1:8Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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1:9Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

1:10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

1:11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

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