Jude 1:18

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

Cross-reference

Jude 1:16 Parallel

In Jude 1:16, the scoffers are described as grumblers and malcontents following their own passions — showing their character.

Acts 20:29 Parallel

In Acts 20:29, Paul warns of savage wolves entering, matching Jude's prophecy of scoffers in the last times.

1 Timothy 4:1-2 explicitly predicts later times with deceitful teaching, parallel to Jude's warning about scoffers.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 details the characteristics of last days people, expanding on Jude's reference to scoffers.

In 2 Timothy 4:3, Paul similarly warns of people rejecting sound teaching to follow their own desires, echoing the same end-times deception.

2 Peter 3:3 Allusion

In 2 Peter 3:3, the same prophecy appears almost verbatim: scoffers will come in the last days following their own desires.

2 Timothy 3:6 describes false teachers who creep into homes and exploit weak women, mirroring Jude's scoffers following ungodly passions.

2 Timothy 3:8 says false teachers oppose truth like Jannes and Jambres — directly aligning with Jude's scoffers who reject godliness.

Titus 2:12 Contrast

Titus 2:12 calls believers to renounce ungodly passions — the opposite of Jude's scoffers who follow them. A clear contrast.

1 John 2:18 Parallel

1 John 2:18 affirms that the last hour has come with many antichrists — reinforcing Jude's warning about end-times scoffers.

2 Timothy 3:3 lists moral decay in last days — heartless, slanderous — matching the character of Jude's scoffers.

2 Peter 2:1 Parallel

In 2 Peter 2:1, Peter warns of false teachers arising in the last days — a related threat of ungodly influences among believers.