2 Peter 2:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, to whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

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  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the water; they came to the wells and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it vanishes.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the children of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 22:13 : 13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 25:30 : 30 And cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive;
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
  • Job 6:14-17 : 14 To him who is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; yet he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully like a brook, like the streams of brooks that pass away, 16 Which are dark because of the ice, and where the snow is hidden: 17 At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

    12These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;

    13Raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-16
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    12But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption;

    13And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you;

    14Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.

    15They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

    16But was rebuked for his iniquity; the dumb donkey speaking with a man's voice restrained the madness of the prophet.

  • Job 10:22
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    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Prov 25:14
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    14Whoever boasts of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

  • Job 24:17-18
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    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

  • 2 Pet 2:3-4
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    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

    4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Job 37:21
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    21And now men do not see the bright light which is in the clouds, but the wind passes and clears them.

  • Isa 57:20
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    20But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  • Job 38:2
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    2Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • Ps 11:6
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    6Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their cup.

  • Job 21:18
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    18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 3:5
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    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Job 6:16-17
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    16Which are dark because of the ice, and where the snow is hidden:

    17At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Jude 1:19
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    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, having not the Spirit.

  • Job 15:30
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    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall go away.

  • Jer 2:13
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    13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

  • Heb 12:18
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    18For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,

  • Mic 3:6
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    6Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

  • 2 Pet 3:7
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    7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved for fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Job 28:4
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    4The flood breaks out from the dweller; even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from mankind.

  • Jude 1:8
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    8Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.

  • Jude 1:6
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    6And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

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    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.

  • Job 22:14
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    14Thick clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks on the circuit of heaven.'

  • 2 Tim 2:16
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    16But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

  • Job 22:16
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    16Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

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    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

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    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.