2 Peter 2:17

World English Bible (2000)

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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  • Jude 1:12-13 : 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the 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 throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
  • Matt 25:30 : 30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
  • Job 6:14-17 : 14 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away; 16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. 17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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    10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

    11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.

    12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

    13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

  • Job 22:11
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    11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-16
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    12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

    13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

    14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

    15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

    16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

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    22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Prov 25:14
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    14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

  • Job 24:17-18
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    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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    3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

    4 For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

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    12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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    30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

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    21 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

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    20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

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    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

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    2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

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    6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

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    18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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    11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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    16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

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    13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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    19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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    22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

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    19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

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    30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

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    13 "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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    7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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    25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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    4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

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    6 Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

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    14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

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    17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

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