2 Peter 3:6, 2 Peter 3:7 WEB

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 3:5-7

Chapter 27 JUDGMENT TO COME2 Peter 3:5-7"THE world lasts on" (διαμενει) "through all time," say the scoffers, "just as it was at the Creation. There has been no change; there will be none." But out of their own mouth their folly is rebuked. How can these men speak of a creation? If there is to be no judge, why believe that there has been a Creator? That must be included in the general denial. "For this they willfully forget." Yes, here is the reason of their conduct, the root of all the evil.... 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 3:6

3:6 {5} Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with {c} water, perished:(5) Secondly he sets against them the universal flood, which was the destruction of the whole world.(c) For the waters returning into their former place, this world, that is to say, this beauty of the earth which we see, and all living creatures which live upon the earth, perished. 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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:5-10

5-10 Had these scoffers considered the dreadful vengeance with which God swept away a whole world of ungodly men at once, surely they would not have scoffed at his threatening an equally terrible judgment. The heavens and the earth which now are, by the same word, it is declared, will be destroyed by fire. This is as sure to come, as the truth and the power of God can make it. Christians are here taught and established in the truth of the coming of the Lord. Though, in the account of men, there... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - 2 Peter 3:1-99

2Pet 3 CHAPTER 2, THEN, is a very dark one. It introduces by way of parenthesis a very necessary warning. With the third chapter the apostle Peter returns to his main theme, the immense importance of true prophecy. The true believer, being born again, has a pure mind. Yet though pure it needs to be stirred up to constant mindfulness of what God has said whether by the holy prophets of Old Testament days or by the apostles and prophets of the Lord Jesus in New Testament Scripture. The... read more