2 Peter 2:17

These are wells without water, mists driven before a tempest; for whom the blackest darkness is reserved.

Revised King James 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 was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

18For they speak great swelling words of vanity, and allure through the lusts of the flesh, through sensuality, those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

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Cross References

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

Matthew 25:30And cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into pits of gloom, to be reserved for judgment;

Jude 1:12These men are blemishes at your feasts of love, when they eat with you without fear: clouds without water, carried about by the winds; autumn 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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