Catholic Public Domain Version
"These ones are like fountains without water, and like clouds stirred up by whirlwinds. For them, the mist of darkness is reserved. "
— 2 Peter 2:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.”
“These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved. ”
“These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.”
“These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.”
“These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.”
“These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.”
“These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.”
having eyes full of adultery and of incessant offenses, luring unstable souls, having a heart well-trained in avarice, sons of curses!
Abandoning the straight path, they wandered astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity.
Yet truly, he had a correction of his madness: the mute animal under the yoke, which, by speaking with a human voice, forbid the folly of the prophet.
These ones are like fountains without water, and like clouds stirred up by whirlwinds. For them, the mist of darkness is reserved.
For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,
promising them freedoms, while they themselves are the servants of corruption. For by whatever a man is overcome, of this also is he the servant.
For if, after taking refuge from the defilements of the world in the understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled and overcome by these things, then the latter state becomes worse than the former.