2 Pedro 3:3-5 NVT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:3-7

To quicken and excite us to a serious minding and firm adhering to what God has revealed to us by the prophets and apostles, we are told that there will be scoffers, men who will make a mock of sin, and of salvation from it. God's way of saving sinners by Jesus Christ is what men will scoff at, and that in the last days, under the gospel. This indeed may seem very strange, that the New-Testament dispensation of the covenant of grace, which is spiritual and therefore more agreeable to the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:3-4

3:3-4 To begin with, you are well aware that in the last days there will come mockers with their mocking, guiding their steps by the law of their own lusts and saying, "What has happened to the promise of his Coming? For, since the day when our fathers fell asleep, everything remains the same as it was from the foundation of the world." The characteristic of the heretics which worried Peter most of all was their denial of the Second Coming of Jesus. Literally, their question was: "Where is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:5-6

3:5-6 What they wilfully fail to see is that long ago the heavens were created and the earth was composed out of water and through water; and through these waters the ancient world perished, when it was overwhelmed in a deluge of water. Peter's first argument is that the world is not eternally stable. The point he is making is that the ancient world was destroyed by water, just as the present world is going to be destroyed by fire. The detail of this passage is, however, difficult. He... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first ,.... In the first place, principally, and chiefly, and which might easily be known and observed from the writings of the apostles and prophets; see 1 Timothy 4:1 ; that there shall come in the last days scoffers , or "mockers"; such as would make a mock at sin, make light of it, plead for it, openly commit it, and glory in it; and scoff at all religion, as the prejudice of education, as an engine of state, a piece of civil policy to keep subjects in awe, as cant,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:4

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming ?.... That is, of the coming of the Lord and Saviour, 2 Peter 3:2 ; the object of their scorn and derision, and whom they name not, through contempt; and the meaning is, what is become of the promise of his coming? where the accomplishment of it? The prophets foretold he would come; he himself said he would come again, John 14:3 ; the angels, at his ascension, declared he would come from heaven in like manner as he went up, Acts 1:11 ; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:5

For this they willingly are ignorant of ,.... Namely, what follows; for as these men were such as had professed Christianity, and had the advantage of revelation, and had the opportunity of reading the Scriptures, they might have known that the heavens and the earth were from the beginning; and that they were made by the word of God; and that the earth was originally in such a position and situation as to be overflowed with a flood, and that it did perish by a general inundation; and that... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first - Considering this in an especial manner, that those prophets predicted the coming of false teachers: and their being now in the Church proved how clearly they were known to God, and showed the Christians at Pontus the necessity of having no intercourse or connection with them. There shall come - scoffers - Persons who shall endeavor to turn all religion into ridicule, as this is the most likely way to depreciate truth in the sight of the giddy multitude. The scoffers,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:4

Where is the promise of his coming? - Perhaps the false teachers here referred to were such as believed in the eternity of the world: the prophets and the apostles had foretold its destruction, and they took it for granted, if this were true, that the terrestrial machine would have begun long ago to have shown some symptoms of decay; but they found that since the patriarchs died all things remained as they were from the foundation of the world; that is, men were propagated by natural... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:5

For this they willingly are ignorant of - They shut their eyes against the light, and refuse all evidence; what does not answer their purpose they will not know. And the apostle refers to a fact that militates against their hypothesis, with which they refused to acquaint themselves; and their ignorance he attributes to their unwillingness to learn the true state of the case. By the word of God the heavens were of old - I shall set down the Greek text of this extremely difficult clause: ... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:3

Verse 3 3.Knowing this first. The participle knowing may be applied to the Apostle, and in this way, “I labor to stir you up for this reason, because I know what and how great is your impending danger from scoffers.” I however prefer this explanation, that the participle is used in place of a verb, as though he had said, “Know ye this especially.” For it was necessary that this should have been foretold, because they might have been shaken, had impious men attacked them suddenly with scoffs of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:3-7

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:3-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:5-6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:3

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