2 Peter 2:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

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  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots, 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
  • Matt 25:30 : 30 And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
  • Job 6:14-17 : 14 He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all. 15 My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end: 16 Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them; 17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

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  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

    11 A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

    12 These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,

    13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

  • 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

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    12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

    13 For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

    14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

    15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

    16 But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.

  • 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • 14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.

  • Job 24:17-18
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    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • 2 Pet 2:3-4
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    3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

    4 For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

  • 12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • 21 And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

  • 20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.

  • 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

  • 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

  • 6 On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

  • 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • 11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

  • 6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Job 6:16-17
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    16 Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

    17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

  • 13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

  • 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • 19 These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

  • 30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • 13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

  • 18 You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

  • 6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • 7 But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

  • 25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

  • 4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 8 In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

  • 6 And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

  • 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • 14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • 16 But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

  • 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • 17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

  • 17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: