Jude 1:10
Good News Translation
But these people attack with insults anything they do not understand; and those things that they know by instinct, like wild animals, are the very things that destroy them.

New Revised Standard Version
But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.

Contemporary English Version
But these people insult powers they don't know anything about. They are like senseless animals that end up getting destroyed, because they live only by their feelings.

New American Bible
But these people revile what they do not understand and are destroyed by what they know by nature like irrational animals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.

speak.

2 Peter 2:12 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption:

in those.

Romans 1:21,22 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

Context
God's Judgment on the Ungodly
9When Michael the archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the body of Moses, he durst not bring against him the judgment of railing speech, but said: The Lord command thee. 10But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted. 11Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have perished in the contradiction of Core.…
Cross References
Romans 2:14
For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves.

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

2 Peter 2:12
But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption:

Jude 1:9
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