2 Peter 2:17

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. The gloom of thick darkness is reserved for them.

Unlocked Literal 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 he obtained a rebuke for his own transgression—a mute donkey speaking in a human voice stopped the prophet's insanity.

18They speak with vain arrogance. They entice people through the lusts of the flesh. They entice people who try to escape from those who live in error.

Read all of 2 Peter 2

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:3Their mighty ones send out their servants for water. 1 When they go to the trenches, they cannot find water. They all return unsuccessful; 1 they cover their heads ashamed and dishonored. 1

Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.”

Matthew 25:30Throw the worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.'

2 Peter 2:4For God did not spare the angels who sinned. Instead he handed them down to Tartarus to be kept in chains of lower darkness until the judgment. + 2:4 Some other versions read, to be kept in pits of lower darkness until the judgment .

Jude 1:12These are the ones who are hidden reefs in your love feasts, when they feast with you shamelessly—shepherds who only feed themselves. They are clouds without rain, carried along by winds. They are autumn trees 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Peter 2:17