2 Peter 3:3

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 3:3

SECOND PREDICTION: Scoffers shall throw doubt on Christ’s return. (3) In the last days.—Comp. 1 Peter 1:20; Hebrews 1:2; and the parallel passage to this, Jude 1:18. “Know this first, children, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts” is quoted in a homily attributed on doubtful authority to Hippolytus. (See above on 2 Peter 2:1.)Scoffers.—The best authorities add “in scoffing,” intensifying the meaning by repetition (as in Ephesians 1:3; Revelation 14:2;... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Peter 3:1-18

2 Peter 3:4 The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the condition as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened is, in the logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent. George Eliot, Silas Marner (ch. v.).... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:1-4

Chapter 26 AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH2 Peter 3:1-4IN the previous chapter the Apostle showed how the renegade false teachers had published among the brethren their seductive doctrine declaring that God’s fatherly discipline was something which they need not undergo, that the trials which He sent them might be escaped, and the natural bent of man’s heart indulged as fully as they pleased. The foul results of such lessons, both to the flock, and to the teachers, he also depicted in such wise as to... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 2 Peter 3:1-18

III. THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE CONCLUSION CHAPTER 3 1. Mocking at the Lord’s coming (2 Peter 3:1-7 ) 2. The future of the earth (2 Peter 3:8-18 ) 3. Exhortation and conclusion (2 Peter 3:11-18 ) 2 Peter 3:1-7 The opening statement shows conclusively that Peter is the author and that this second Epistle was sent to the same believers to whom the first Epistle was addressed. The critics claim that this chapter marks a separate Epistle in itself and that it was combined by mistake... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:3

3:3 {2} Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days {a} scoffers, walking after their own lusts,(2) He vouches the second coming of Christ against the Epicureans by name.(a) Monstrous men, who will seem wise by their contempt of God, and wicked boldness. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:1-18

This chapter now shows that the government of God will bring everything to a proper conclusion: every evil principle will be judged unsparingly, and those also who embrace such evil; and out of this judgment will emerge precious resurrection state of eternal blessing. But both of Peter's epistles have the chief present object of stirring up the pure minds of believers by way of remembrance. He claims to give no new truth, but we greatly to be reminded of that which we have before heard. And... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:1-18

OCCASION OF THE WARNING We now consider the last division which treats of the occasion for this warning and exhortation, chapters 2-3. In brief, this occasion was in the incoming of false teachers in the church, 2 Peter 2:1 , whose success is predicted in 2 Peter 2:2 ; whose punishment is certain and dreadful, v. 3-9; and whose description follows in verses 10-22. We shall not enter upon this description in detail, and, indeed, it presents many difficulties of interpretation. The presence... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 2 Peter 3:1-18

The Longsuffering of God 2Pe 3:9 We wanted some one to say this. It does seem that the Lord is very slow. It is like us to attach small meanings to things. Water cannot rise above its own level: how can the mind get above its own imagination? We needed, therefore, some one to come down as it were with the key to correct us, to take away the little word and put in its place the greater word, saying to us, You ought not to say Slow, you ought to say Longsuffering, patient, forbearing, kind;... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 2 Peter 3:1-7

"This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: (2) That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: (3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (4) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:3

Scoffers [1] with deceit, (such as make a jest of all revealed religion) walking according to their own lusts, as if they might indulge themselves in every thing which their inclinations prompt them to, saying: where is his promise, or his coming? They have no belief nor regard for what has been revealed concerning the coming of Christ to judge every one, to reward the good, and punish the wicked. Such were the Sadducees, who believe not the immortality of the soul, nor the resurrection;... read more