2 Peter 2:17

These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

Revised Version 1895

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 was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

18For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 14:3And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the pits, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty: they are ashamed and confounded, and cover their heads.

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

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

2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Jude 1:12These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by 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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