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Deliverance from False Prophets

2 Peter 2:17

In 9 translations

BSB
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
KJV
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
WEB
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
ASV
These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
LSV
These are wells without water, and clouds driven by a storm, to whom the deepest gloom of darkness has been kept throughout the age;
YLT
These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;
DBY
These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved [for ever].
DRC
These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.
GNV
These are welles without water, and cloudes caried about with a tempest, to whome the blacke darkenes is reserued for euer.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ὁμίχλαι (“mists”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read νεφέλαι (“clouds”).
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include εἰς αἰῶνα (“into age”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles include καὶ (“and”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: καὶ ὁμίχλαι. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read καὶ ὁμίχλαι; Robinson–Pierpont read νεφέλαι.
  • SBLGNT: σκότους. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read σκότους; Robinson–Pierpont add εἰς αἰῶνα.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Οὗτοί εἰσιν πηγαὶ ἄνυδροι καὶ ὁμίχλαι ὑπὸ λαίλαπος ἐλαυνόμεναι, οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους τετήρηται.
RP2018
Οὗτοί εἰσιν πηγαὶ ἄνυδροι, νεφέλαι ὑπὸ λαίλαπος ἐλαυνόμεναι, οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους εἰς αἰῶνα τετήρηται.
TR-Boyd
Οὗτοί εἰσι πηγαὶ ἄνυδροι, νεφέλαι ὑπὸ λαίλαπος ἐλαυνόμεναι, οἷς ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους εἰς αἰῶνα τετήρηται.
SCR1894
ουτοι εισιν πηγαι ανυδροι νεφελαι υπο λαιλαπος ελαυνομεναι οις ο ζοφος του σκοτους εις αιωνα τετηρηται

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Jude 1:12–13These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being…
  • Jeremiah 14:3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
  • Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
  • Matthew 25:30And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
  • Matthew 22:13Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
  • Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
  • Job 6:14–17A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty. But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow, darkened because of the ice and the…
  • Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
  • Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
  • 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

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