2 Peter 2:17

These are fountains without water, and mists driven away by the storm, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

16the dumb workbeast having spoken with the voice of a man, rebuked the madness of the prophet.

18For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;

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Cross References

Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels who sinned, but having sent them down to hell, committed them to chains of darkness to be kept unto judgment;

Jude 1:12These are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting along with you without fear shepherdizing themselves, clouds without water, driven away by the winds; withered trees, 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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