2 Peter 2:17-20 These, are fountains without water, and mists, by a tempest, driven along,––for whom, the gloom of darkness, hath been reserved;

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ These, are fountains without water, and mists, by a tempest, driven along,––for whom, the gloom of darkness, hath been reserved; ¹⁸ For, great swelling words of vanity, uttering, they entice with carnal covetings––in wanton ways––them who are, well–nigh, escaping from the men who, in error, have their behaviour; ¹⁹ Promising, freedom to them, they themselves, being all the while, slaves of corruption,––for, by whom one hath been defeated, by the same, hath he become enslaved,–– ²⁰ For, if, having escaped from the defilements of the world by a personal knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but, by the same having again become entangled, they are defeated, the, last, state hath become, for them, worse than, the first;