2 Peter 2:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.”
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“These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.”
King James Version · Public Domain“These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Peter 2:17 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 6:14A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- Jeremiah 14:3The 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.
- Hosea 6:4What 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.
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Matthew 22:13Then 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 25:30And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
- Ephesians 4:14Then 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.
- 2 Peter 2:4For 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;
- Jude 1:6And 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.
- Jude 1:12These 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 uprooted.
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