Jude 1:16

Jude 1:16. A further description is now given of these teachers by an enumeration of the qualities by which all may identify them. They are characterized by a chronic discontent with everything and everybody, with their own lot especially the providence and ways of God, as we should call it; by intense self-indulgence, by proud and self-sufficient speech, and by gross flattery of the prosperous or great whenever anything is to be gained by it. Murmurers, complainers of their lot.

walking ever after their own lusts; and their month it speaks great swelling words, affirming their superiority to all restraints (their freedom, 2 Peter 2:18); while their reverence, such as they are capable of, is reserved for the possessors of wealth and influence (men's persons, the outside quality, not their true character), and those who are able, and whom they hope to make willing, to help them; and all this in their teaching as well as in their lives. How different from the apostolic type is sufficiently plain (Philippians 4:11-12; 1 Timothy 6:8; Hebrews 13:5).