13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
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These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)The apostle here exhibits a charge against deceivers who were now seducing the disciples of Christ from the profession and practice of his holy religion. He calls them filthy dreamers , forasmuch as delusion is a dream, and the beginning of, and inlet to, all manner of filthiness. Note, Sin is filthiness; it renders men odious and vile in the sight of the most holy God, and makes them (sooner or l…
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