2 Peter 2:17 Parallel Translations

These false teachers are dried-up springs. They are a mist blown around by a storm. Gloomy darkness has been kept for them.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

WEY:

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

WBS:

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

WEB:

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

YLT:

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;

2 Peter 2:17 Cross References

XREF:

Jude 1:12 These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

Jude 1:13 wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:17 {8} These are {o} wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of {p} darkness is reserved for ever.
(8) Another note by which it may be known what manner of men they are, because they have inwardly nothing but that which is utterly vain or very harmful, although they make a show of some great goodness, yet they shall not escape unpunished for it, because under pretence of false freedom, they draw men into the most miserable slavery of sin.
(o) Who boast of knowledge and have nothing in them.
(p) Most gross darkness.

PNT:

2:17 These are wells without water. Springs without water (Revised Version). They promise much but disappoint.
Clouds that are carried with a tempest. Mists driven by a storm (Revised Version). The thought is the same. These mists promise rain, but it fails to descend.
To whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For these apostates the blackness of darkness is reserved (Revised Version).

WES:

2:17 Fountains and clouds promise water: so do these promise, but do not perform.

MHC:

2:17-22 The word of truth is the water of life, which refreshes the souls that receive it; but deceivers spread and promote error, and are set forth as empty, because there is no truth in them. As clouds hinder the light of the sun, so do these darken counsel by words wherein there is no truth. Seeing that these men increase darkness in this world, it is very just that the mist ofdarkness should be their portion in the next. In the midst of their talk of liberty, these men are the vilest slaves; their own lusts gain a complete victory over them, and they are actually in bondage. When men are entangled, they are easily overcome; therefore Christians should keep close to the word of God, and watch against all who seek to bewilder them. A state of apostacy is worse than a state of ignorance. To bring an evil report upon the good way of God, and a false charge against the way of truth, must expose to the heaviest condemnation. How dreadful is the state here described! Yet though such a case is deplorable, it is not utterly hopeless; the leper may be made clean, and even the dead may be raised. Is thy backsliding a grief to thee? Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved.

CONC:

Age Along Black Blackest Blackness Carried Clouds Darkness Dense Driven Driving Eternal Forever Fountains Gloom Kept Mist Mists Nether Reserved Springs Store Storm Tempest Thick Waterless Wells

Age Black Blackest Blackness Carried Clouds Darkness Dense Driven Driving Eternal Forever Fountains Gloom Kept Mist Mists Nether Night Reserved Springs Storm Tempest Thick Water Waterless Wells

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