2 Peter 3:9-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9-10

We are here told that the Lord is not slack?he does not delay beyond the appointed time; as God kept the time that he had appointed for the delivering of Israel out of Egypt, to a day (Exod. 12:41), so he will keep to the time appointed in coming to judge the world. What a difference is there between the account which God makes and that which men make! Good men are apt to think God stays beyond the appointed time, that is, the time which they have set for their own and the church's... read more

Matthew Henry

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 3:8-9

3:8-9 Beloved, you must not shut your eyes to this one fact that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. It is not that God is dilatory in fulfilling his promise, as some people reckon dilatoriness; but it is that for your sakes he patiently withholds his hand, because he does not wish any to perish, but wishes all to take the way to repentance. There are in this passage three great truths on which to nourish the mind and rest the heart. (i) Time is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:10

3:10 But when it does come, the Day of the Lord will come as a thief and in it the heavens will pass away with a crackling roar; the stars will blaze and melt; and the earth and all its works will disappear. It inevitably happens that a man has to speak and think in the terms which he knows. That is what Peter is doing here. He is speaking of the New Testament doctrine of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, but he is describing it in terms of the Old Testament doctrine of the Day of the... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise ,.... The Syriac version reads in the plural, "his promises", any of his promises; though the words seem rather to regard the particular promise of Christ's coming, either to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, of which coming there was a promise made, and is often referred to by Christ, and his apostles; see Mark 9:1 Hebrews 10:37 ; and it now being upwards of thirty years since it was given out, some men began to charge God with slackness... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ,.... That is, the Lord will come in that day, which he has fixed, according to his promise, than which nothing is more certain; and he will come as a thief in the night: he will come "in the night", which may be literally understood; for as his first coming was in the night; see Luke 2:8 ; so perhaps his second coming may be in the night season; or figuratively, when it will be a time of great darkness; when there will be little... 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9-10

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

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:8-9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:10

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:10

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

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

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