2 Peter 2:17

These people are wells without water, mists driven along by a storm, men for whom the dense darkness has been reserved.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 transgression: a dumb ass spoke with a human voice and checked the madness of the Prophet.

18For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

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Cross References

Matthew 8:12while the natural heirs of the Kingdom will be driven out into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth."

Matthew 25:30`But as for this worthless servant, put him out into the darkness outside: *there* will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'

2 Peter 2:4For God did not spare angels when they had sinned, but hurling them down to Tartarus consigned them to caves of darkness, keeping them in readiness for judgement.

Jude 1:12These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;

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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