2 Peter 2:17

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom thick darkness is reserved for ever.

1770 John Worsley 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

16but was reproved for his transgression: for a dumb beast speaking with the voice of a man checked the madness of the prophet.

18For when they speak swelling words of vanity, they ensnare in the lusts of the flesh, through their lasciviousness, those who had indeed withdrawn from such as deal in error;

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Cross References

Matthew 8:12and the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness; where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; and if He spared not the old world,

Jude 1:12These are spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear, when they are feasting with you: clouds without water, carried about by the winds; trees withered and without fruit, twice dead and rooted up; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;

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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