2 Peter 2:17 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁷ Such people are like springs that give no water and clouds driven by the winds. [Only] the blackest darkness awaits them.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ These are springs without water and mists driven along before a tempest, for whom is reserved forever the gloom of darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ These false teachers are springs without water, mists driven by the wind. The underworld has been reserved for them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ These ones are like fountains without water, and like clouds stirred up by whirlwinds. For them, the mist of darkness is reserved.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

2 Peter 2:17 Cross References

Matthew 22:13

Then the king said to his servants, ‘Tie him up, hand and foot, and throw him into [a place of] outer darkness where there will be crying and excruciating pain.’

Matthew 25:30

Throw out that worthless servant into the [place of] outer darkness, where there will be crying and excruciating pain.

Matthew 8:12

But the children who [are supposed to] belong to the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness where there will be crying and excruciating pain.”

Ephesians 4:14

Then we will no longer be [spiritual] babies, tossed back and forth [by waves], and blown around by every wind of [false] teaching, [deceived] by the clever trickery of people using deceptive schemes.

Hebrews 12:18

[Unlike the Israelites at Mount Sinai] you [Christians] have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that burned with fire [See Ex. 19:12, 16-19; 20:18-21; Deut. 4:11]; to [a place of] darkness, gloom and wind;

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare sinning angels, but cast them in chains into deep, dark dungeons to await judgment;

Jude 1:6

And angels, who did not remain within [the bounds of] their proper authority, but left their own realm, God has kept in perpetual bondage, under [thick] darkness, awaiting judgment on the Great Day [when they will be punished].