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


In Context

14 having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

16 but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man's voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

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

18 For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved for ever.

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;