17These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever.


In Context

14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;

15 having left the straight way they have gone astray, having followed in the path of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the reward of unrighteousness;

16 but had reproof of his own wickedness the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.

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

18 For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

2 Peter 2:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:17These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:17These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:17These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;