17 (A)[a]These are [b]wells without water, and clouds carried about with a tempest, to whom the [c]black darkness is reserved forever.

18 For in speaking [d]swelling words of vanity, they [e]beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were [f]clean escaped from them which are wrapped in error,

19 Promising unto them liberty, and are themselves the (B)servants of corruption: for of whomsoever a man is overcome, even unto the same is he in bondage.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:17 Another note whereby they may be well known what manner of men they are, because they have inwardly nothing but either utterly vain or very hurtful, although they make a show of some great goodness: but they shall not escape unpunished for it, because under pretence of false liberty, they draw men into most miserable slavery of sin.
  2. 2 Peter 2:17 Which boast of knowledge, and have nothing in them.
  3. 2 Peter 2:17 Most gross darkness.
  4. 2 Peter 2:18 They deceive men with vain and swelling words.
  5. 2 Peter 2:18 They take them as fishes are taken with the hook.
  6. 2 Peter 2:18 Unfeignedly and indeed clean departed from Idolatry.

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