2 Peter 2:17

These are wells without water, and mists driven by a tempest; for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.

Noyes Bible

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 was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.

18For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they allure in the lusts of the flesh, by dissolute ways, such as were in some measure escaping from those who live in error;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 14:3The nobles send their younger ones for water; They come to the wells, they find none; They return with their vessels empty; They are ashamed and confounded; They cover their heads.

Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will go out into the outer darkness; there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:30And cast out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them over to chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Jude 1:12These are the rocks in your feasts of love, feasting together without fear, feeding only themselves; clouds without water, carried away by winds; trees in late autumn, without fruit, twice dead, plucked 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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