2 Peter 2:17

These men are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved forever.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

In Context

16but he was rebuked for his iniquity,―the dumb beast, speaking with man’s voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.

18For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

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Cross References

Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness that is without. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:30And cast the unprofitable servant into the darkness without. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and delivered them over to chains of darkness, to be kept for judgment;

Jude 1:12These, while feasting with you, are spots in your lovefeasts, feeding themselves without fear; they are clouds without water, driven along by winds; trees of autumn, without fruit, twice dead, torn up by the roots:

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:11-22

False Teachers. ( a. d. 67.) 10 But 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. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But 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; 13 And shall receive… Read the whole commentary →

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