2 Peter 2:17 “These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Black…”

2 Peter 2:17

These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

These are welles without water, and cloudes caried about with a tempest, to whome the blacke darkenes is reserued for euer.

Darby Translation

These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].

Young's Literal Translation

These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

Bible in Basic English

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

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Cross references

“are wells”

Jeremiah 14:3 Job 6:14–17 Hosea 6:4 Jude 1:12 Jude 1:13

Jeremiah 14:3 · BSB

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

Job 6:14–17 · BSB

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Hosea 6:4 · BSB

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim ? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

Jude 1:12 · BSB

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being u…

Jude 1:13 · BSB

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

“clouds”

Ephesians 4:14

Ephesians 4:14 · BSB

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

“darkness”

2 Peter 2:4 Matthew 8:12 Matthew 22:13 Matthew 25:30 Jude 1:6

2 Peter 2:4 · BSB

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

Matthew 8:12 · BSB

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 22:13 · BSB

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Matthew 25:30 · BSB

And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Jude 1:6 · BSB

And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16But he was rebuked for his transgression by a donkey, otherwise without speech, that spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

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