2 Peter 2:17

2 Peter 2:4; Ephesians 4:14; Hosea 6:4; Jeremiah 14:3; Job 6:14-17; Jude 1:12; Jude 1:13; Jude 1:6; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 25:30; Matthew 8:12

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These are wells without water - Jude 1:12-13 employs several other epithets to describe the same class of persons. The language employed both b...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(8) These are (o) wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of (p) darkness is reserved for ever. (8) Another no...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The sins of the false teachers are now described licentiousness ( 2 Peter 2:10 ), audacious blasphemy ( 2 Peter 2:10-12 ), open profligacy ( 2 Peter...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wells . Greek. pege . Always translated "fountain", except here and John 4:6 ; John 4:14 . without water . Greek. anudros. Only here; Matthe...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. These are wells, or fountains, without water. He shews by these two metaphors, that they had nothing within, though they made a gre...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. These are wells without wat...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

These are wells without water, &c.— When a thirsty person goes to a fountain to drink, and finds it dried up, and there is nothing but an empty...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Wells - "clouds,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Warning Against a Threatened Plague of Brutal False Teachers As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Wells without water , etc.] RV 'spring without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.' The false...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

These are wells . — Or, springs; same word as John 4:6 . These men are like dried-up watering-places in the desert, which entice and mock the thi...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 25 ALTOGETHER BECOME ABOMINABLE 2 Peter 2:17-22 THE Apostle now describes these traitors to the cause of Christ under another aspect....
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Dark Way of Animalism 2 Peter 2:12-22 The description of these false teachers is terrific! They are slaves to their brute instincts. They a...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on suc...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: (10) But chiefly th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

These are wells without water ,.... Which look large and deep, promise much, and have nothing in them; so these men looked like angels of light, tra...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Ver. 17. These are well...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

These are wells without water , &c. Pretenders to knowledge and piety, but really destitute thereof; clouds Promising fertilizing showers of i...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

False Teachers. A. D. 67. 10 But chiefly t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These are wells without water: he compares seducers: 1. To wells without water; because as a well invites a traveller to it in hope of quenchi...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter's Indictment Of The False Preachers ( 2 Peter 2:10-19 ). Peter accuses the false teachers, who are in total contrast to Noah and Lot, both o...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.' What his readers must recognis...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 2 Peter 2:10 . Despise government .—Dominion. Both self-restraint and restraint of good rules and wise authorities...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 2:1 . False teachers who bring in damnable heresies. Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They wer...
The Biblical Illustrator

These are wells without water. False teachers I. Their un-profitableness. “Wells without water.” 1. Pastors are like wells-- (1) For cons...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people; rather, as in the Revised Version, but there arose false pr...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The spiritual slavery of the false teachers and its consequences:
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Timely Warnings 2 Peter 2:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the thin...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fountains and clouds promise water: so do these promise, but do not perform.

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

Related Commentaries of 2 Peter 2:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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