2 Peter 2:17

These are wells without water, clouds driven from above, unto whom the blackness of darkness is reserved.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

16(for) the dumb ass which spake with the voice of man rebuked the madness of the prophet.

18For while they speak scoffing words of vanity, they allure with impure desires of the flesh those who almost escaped from them who have their conversation in error.

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Cross References

Matthew 8:12but the children of the kingdom shall go forth into outer darknesses; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:30And the indolent servant cast forth into the darknesses without; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

2 Peter 2:4For if Aloha upon the angels who sinned was not lenient, but in chains of darkness shut them in the deeps, and delivered them to be kept to the judgment of pain;

Jude 1:12These are they who, in their recreations contaminating, behave wantonly, feeding themselves without reverence; clouds without rain, roaming with the winds; trees whose fruit withereth, and which are unfruitful, twice dead, and uplifted from their root;

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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