2 Peter 3:11-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:11-18

The apostle, having instructed them in the doctrine of Christ's second coming, I. Takes occasion thence to exhort them to purity and godliness in their whole conversation: all the truths which are revealed in scripture should be improved for our advancement in practical godliness: this is the effect that knowledge must produce, or we are never the better for it. If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. Seeing all these things must be dissolved, how holy should we be, that are... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:11-14

3:11-14 Since these things are going to be dissolved like that, what kind of people ought you to be, living a life of constant holiness and true piety, you who are eagerly awaiting and doing your best to hasten on the Day of the Lord, by whose action the heavens will burn and be dissolved and the stars blaze and melt! For it is new heavens and a new earth, as he promised, for which we wait, in which righteousness has its home. So, then, beloved, since these are the things for which you... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:11-14

There is in this passage still another great conception. Peter speaks of the Christian as not only eagerly awaiting the Coming of Christ but as actually hastening it on. The New Testament tells us certain ways in which this may be done. (i) It may be done by prayer. Jesus taught us to pray: "Thy Kingdom come" ( Matthew 6:10 ). The earnest prayer of the Christian heart hastens the coming of the King. If in no other way, it does so in this--that he who prays opens his own heart for the entry... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:15-16

3:15-16 Regard the Lord's willingness to wait as an opportunity of salvation, as indeed our beloved brother Paul has written to us, in the wisdom which has been given to him, and as he says in all his letters, when he touches on these subjects, letters which contain some things which are difficult to understand, things which those who lack knowledge and a firm foundation in the faith twist, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. Peter here cites Paul as teaching... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:17-18

3:17-18 As far as you are concerned. beloved, you have been forewarned. You must, therefore, be on your guard not to be carried away by the error of lawless men and so to fall from your own foundation; rather, you must see to it that you grow in grace and in understanding of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. In conclusion Peter tells us certain things about the Christian life. (i) The Christian is a man who is forewarned. That... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:11

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved ,.... By fire; the heaven with all its host, sun, moon, and stars, clouds, meteors, and fowls of the air; the earth, and all that is upon it, whether of nature, or art; and, since nothing is more certain than such a dissolution of all things, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness ? not as the scoffers and profane sinners, who put away this evil day far from them, but as men, who have their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:12

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God ,.... The same with the day of the Lord, 2 Peter 3:10 , and so the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions here read; and it intends the day of Christ's second coming to judgment, and so is a proof of the deity of Christ; and is called "the day of God", in distinction from man's day, or human judgment, 1 Corinthians 4:3 , which is often fallacious; whereas the judgment of God is according to truth; and because in that day Christ will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:13

Nevertheless we, according to his promise ,.... Or promises, as the Alexandrian copy, and the Vulgate Latin version; namely those in Isaiah 65:17 ; look for new heavens and a new earth ; not figuratively, the world to come in distinction from the Jewish world or state; a new church state, the Gospel dispensation, with new ordinances, as baptism and the Lord's supper, all legal ceremonies and ordinances being gone, and everything new; for these things had taken place already, and were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:14

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye look for these things ,.... For the burning of the heavens and the earth, for the coming of Christ, and for the new heavens and new earth, be diligent that ye may be found of him ; Christ, or αυτω , "in him", as in Philemon 3:9 ; for such as are in Christ will have an undoubted right to the new heavens and the new earth, and will certainly dwell in them, because they will be found not in their own righteousness, but in the righteousness of Christ: or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:15

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord ,.... Not his longsuffering towards the wicked, and his forbearance with them, for that is not the means of, nor the way to, nor does it issue in, their salvation, but in their sorer punishment and greater damnation, see Romans 2:4 ; but towards the elect, as in 2 Peter 3:9 ; whom he bears much and long with before conversion, while in their sins, and in a state of unregeneracy, and waits to be gracious to them, as he is in their calling,... read more

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