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


In Context

14 With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed--an accursed brood!

15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey--a beast without speech--who spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

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

18 For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.

19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity- -for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

2nd 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 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 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;