2 Peter 3:1-4
THE CERTAIN COMING OF CHRIST AND ITS LESSONS. A warning against scoffers:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CERTAIN COMING OF CHRIST AND ITS LESSONS. A warning against scoffers:... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS SECOND EPISTLE, BELOVED, I NOW WRITE UNTO YOU; IN BOTH WHICH I STIR UP YOUR PURE MINDS BY WAY OF REMEMBRANCE,... [ Continue Reading ]
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 SAVIOR;... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT THERE SHALL COME IN THE LAST DAYS SCOFFERS, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? FOR SINCE THE FATHERS FELL ASLEEP, ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION. The apostle here, in his usual manner, opens a new section of his letter, and the tone employed by him shows that he desires to impress the truths... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF, THAT BY THE WORD OF GOD THE HEAVENS WERE OF OLD AND THE EARTH STANDING OUT OF THE WATER AND IN THE WATER;... [ Continue Reading ]
The answer of St. Peter, showing the certainty of the Lord's return:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREBY THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS, BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER, PERISHED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE, RESERVED UNTO FIRE AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT, BELOVED, BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING, THAT ONE DAY IS WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS, BUT IS LONG-SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP. St. Peter's rejoinder charges the scoffers with malicious ignorance... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEING, THEN, THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS,... [ Continue Reading ]
The attitude of the Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOKING FOR, AND HASTING UNTO, THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD, WHEREIN THE HEAVENS, BEING ON FIRE, SHALL BE DISSOLVED AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT?... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS. The apostle here applies the lesson of the facts adduced by him to the situation of the believers: Since, then, all these things are to be dissolved, what kind of people ought you to be i... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, BELOVED, SEEING THAT YE LOOK FOR SUCH THINGS, BE DILIGENT THAT YE MAY BE FOUND OF HIM IN PEACE, WITHOUT SPOT, AND BLAMELESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
An admonition to steadfastness:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ACCOUNT THAT THE LONG-SUFFERING OF OUR LORD IS SALVATION, EVEN AS OUR BELOVED BROTHER PAUL ALSO, ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM GIVEN UNTO HIM, HATH WRITTEN UNTO YOU,... [ Continue Reading ]
AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE THINGS; IN WHICH ARE SOME THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD, WHICH THEY THAT ARE UNLEARNED AND UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES, UNTO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE, THEREFORE, BELOVED, SEEING YE KNOW THESE THINGS BEFORE, BEWARE LEST YE ALSO, BEING LED AWAY WITH THE ERROR OF THE WICKED, FALL FROM YOUR OWN STEADFASTNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GROW IN GRACE AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. TO HIM BE GLORY BOTH NOW AND FOREVER. AMEN. In the fact that the new earth will be the abode of righteousness there is included a solemn warning to all believers: Therefore, beloved, because you are expecting these things,... [ Continue Reading ]