Verse 17
2 Peter 2:17
World English Bible, British Edition
17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for
whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Original Language Text
greek
Οὗτοί εἰσιν πηγαὶ ἄνυδροι ⸂καὶ ὁμίχλαι⸃ ὑπὸ λαίλαπος ἐλαυνόμεναι, οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ ⸀σκότους τετήρηται.
English Translation
These are waterless springs and mists driven by a tempest, for whom the gloom of darkness is reserved.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
But false prophets also arose amongst the people, as false teachers will
also be amongst you, who wi...
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Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth
will be maligned.
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3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence
now from of old doesn’t l...
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4
For if God (Elohim) didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them
down to Tartarus, and commit...
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5
and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others,
a preacher of righteousnes...
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and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them
to destruction, having made...
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and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life
of the wicked
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(for that righteous man dwelling amongst them was tormented in his righteous
soul from day to day wi...
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then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to
keep the unrighteous under pun...
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but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement
and despise authority. Daring,...
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whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous
judgement against them b...
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12
But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken
and destroyed, speaking evil i...
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13
receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure
to revel in the daytime, spots...
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14
having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing
unsettled souls, having a heart...
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15
Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of
Balaam the son of Beor, who lo...
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but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke
with a man’s voice and stoppe...
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17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for
whom the blackness of darkness has been...
18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the
lusts of the flesh, by licentiou...
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19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption;
for a man is brought i...
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20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through
the knowledge of the Lord and Sa...
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21
For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than after knowing it, t...
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But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog
turns to his own vomit again,” a...
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