αύξάνετε praes. imper. act. от αύξάνω (G88) расти, продвигаться,
έν в. Предлог может обозначать область роста или его средство,
γνώσει dat. sing. от γνώσις (G1108) знание,
τού κυρίου (G2962) Господа. Gen. может быть объектным ("знание о...") или субъектным ("знание от...").Первое послание Иоанна
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2 PETER 3:18 @avmh,n)# {C} On the one hand, the external testimony supporting the presence of avmh,n at the close of the doxology is almost overwhelming in scope and weight, including î72 a A C 33 81...
Verse 2 Peter 3:18. _BUT GROW IN GRACE_] Increase in the image and favour of God; every grace and Divine influence which ye have received is a seed, a heavenly seed, which, if it be watered with the...
BUT GROW IN GRACE - Compare Colossians 1:10. Religion in general is often represented as “grace,” since every part of it is the result of grace, or of unmerited favor; and to “grow in grace” is to inc...
III. THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE CONCLUSION CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Mocking at the Lord's coming (2 Peter 3:1)_ 2. The future of the earth (2 Peter 3:8) 3. EXHORTATION AND CONCLUSION (2 PETER 3:11)...
The epistle closes, as it had opened, with an exhortation to godliness. The Gospel is not a cloke for licentiousness but a call to righteousness. This, the author adds, was the burden of Paul's teachi...
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
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...
GRACE. App-184. KNOWLEDGE. App-132. JESUS CHRIST. App-98. GLORY. See p. 1511. FOR EVER. App-151....
_But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ_ The final thought of the Epistle, like that with which it opened, is the growth of the Christian life. Here, as there (ch...
ΑΥ̓ΞΆΝΕΤΕ ἘΝ ΧΆΡΙΤΙ, cf. 2 Peter 1:8 πλεονάζοντα. αὐξάνω is oftener than not intransitive in N.T. but in classical Greek transitive, and so in 1 Corinthians 3:6 (ὁ θεὸς ηὔξανεν). ΕἸΣ ἩΜΈΡΑΝ ΑἸΩ͂ΝΟΣ. A...
DISCOURSE: 2429 GROWTH IN GRACE 2 Peter 3:17. _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 steadfas...
BUT GROW IN GRACE, AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE, &C.— "But to help you against all declensions and revolts, let it be your earnest prayer and endeavour, in the use of all proper means, to be progressive in da...
2 PETER 3:18 BUT GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. TO HIM BE THE GLORY BOTH NOW AND FOREVER. AMEN. _Expanded Translation_ But rather than falling from your own ste...
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus GROW - not only do not "fall from" (2 Peter 3:17), but grow onward: the secret of not going backward (Ephesians 4:15). (THE) GRA...
VERSE 18. BUT GROW IN GRACE. In place of apostatizing, or becoming unstable, grow in stature as Christians, and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and his doctrine, daily. The growth in grace...
15 It is evident that Peter, great apostle though he was, could not apprehend fully the ministry of Paul. He did see, however, that the seeming delay in the setting up of the kingdom was being used by...
GROW IN GRACE, AND _IN_ THE KNOWLEDGE OF] RV 'grow in the grace and knowledge of.' Grace is the gift of, as knowledge is directed towards, Christ. 'Grow' sums up in one word the admonitions of 1 and 2...
ANTIDOTE AGAINST DESPISING THE DAY OF THE LORD. EXHORTATION. DOXOLOGY 2 Peter 3 may be subdivided into three parts: (_a_) 2 Peter 3:1. 'This Second Epistle is a reminder of what prophets and apostles...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 JESUS WILL RETURN AND GOD’S JUDGEMENT WILL HAPPEN V1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. Both le...
False teachers are a problem. The only answer to this problem is that Christians should become stronger Christians. They must understand how much God loves them. Also, they must grow in their relation...
BUT GROW IN GRACE, AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD. — Or, _But grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord_ — _i.e.,_ it may mean “the grace of our Lord” as well as “the knowledge of our Lord....
CHAPTER 30 "BE YE STEADFAST, UNMOVABLE" 2 Peter 3:14 IN these solemn closing words the Apostle sums up his exhortations and warnings. His admonition is of a twofold character. First, he urges the br...
_Final exhortation_. “Having then, brethren, been forewarned, be on your guard lest you fall from your own foundation, carried away by the error of lawless men. Grow in the grace and knowledge of Our...
ἐν χάριτι καὶ γνώσει τοῦ Κυρίου, κ. τ. λ. The genitive is to be taken with both words. γνῶσις here means “spiritual instruction,” a knowledge that has its source in Christ Himself, as distinct from ἐπ...
“HOLY LIVING AND GODLINESS” 2 Peter 3:10 How quickly the great European convulsion broke upon the world in the summer of 1914! Who expected such a sudden burst of the great storm! We are evidently ne...
False teaching which denies the power of Christ issues in false thinking which denies the Coming of Christ. There will be mockers who will walk in lust and make sport of the great hope of the Church,...
THE PROMISE OF NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH The new heavens and new earth promise is evidently from Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22. Christians should know that when the old earth is destroyed there will be...
"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen." Reader! What is it to grow in grace? Grace is an humbling principle. And wha...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
_GROWTH IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE_ ‘But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.’ 2 Peter 3:18 The Christian life, like the Christian faith from which it springs, is a...
18._But grow in grace. _He also exhorts us to make progress; for it is the only way of persevering, to make continual advances, and not to stand still in the middle of our journey; as though he had sa...
In the last Chapter, as we have said, it is materialism: trust in the stability of that which can be seen, in contrast with trust in the word of God which teaches us to look for the coming of Jesus, t...
BUT GROW IN GRACE,.... In the gifts of grace, which, under a divine blessing, may be increased by using them: gifts neglected decrease, but stirred up and used, are improved and increase. And though m...
But grow in grace, and _in_ the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him _be_ glory both now and for ever. Amen. Ver. 18. _But grow_] In firmness at least, as an apple doth in mellownes...
_Therefore, seeing ye know these things before_ Respecting the coming of the Lord to judgment, in what an awful manner the scene will close, and what dreadful vengeance will be executed on all the wic...
GROW IN GRACE; increase your knowledge of Christ, and your likeness to him. The grand safeguard against the seductions of error, and the most powerful means of increase in holiness, is increasing know...
An admonition to steadfastness:...
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 inclu...
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 j...
_ 2 Peter 3:18 ‘but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him to be glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.'_ ‘BUT' -In contrast to falling from your own s...
11-18 From the doctrine of Christ's second coming, we are exhorted to purity and godliness. This is the effect of real knowledge. Very exact and universal holiness is enjoined, not resting in any low...
BUT GROW IN GRACE; in all those spiritual gifts ye have received from Christ, especially sanctifying. AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST; in faith, whereby ye are sanctified, and...
2 Peter 3:18 but G1161 grow G837 (G5720) in G1722 grace G5485 and G2532 knowledge G1108 our G2257 Lord...
‘But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.' And the way in which they are to ensure their own steadfastness is by ‘grow...
FINAL SUMMARY (2 PETER 3:17). Peter now sums up what he has said, firstly with a warning and then with an appeal. They are to beware lest they be carried away by false teaching, and they are to grow...
2 Peter 3:18. BUT GROW IN GRACE AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. The R. V. prefers the rendering ‘grow in the grace and knowledge,' etc. a rendering which may mean either ‘in...
The closing verses are devoted to the pressing of certain practical injunctions, which are closely connected with the Christian view of the end. These are given in a strain as tender as it is solemn a...
BUT GROW (αυξανετε δε). Present active imperative of αυξανω, in contrast with such a fate pictured in verse 2 Peter 3:17, "but keep on growing."IN THE GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE (εν χαριτ κα γνωσε). Loca...
GRACE Grace (imparted). Summary (see "Grace"). (_ See Scofield) - (John 1:17) _ Grace is not only dispensationally a method of divine dealing in salvation, (_ See Scofield) - (John 1:17), _ but i...
2 Peter 3:18 Divine Grace and Human Effort. I. Whenever we have to consider any joint action of God and man, we are in danger either of thinking of God to the exclusion of man, or of man to the exclu...
2 Peter 3:1. _This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:_ The purest minds need stirring up at times. It would be a great pity...
CONTENTS: Return of the Lord and the Day of Jehovah. Christ's return to be generally denied. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The general denial that will be made in the last days of the...
Grotius, with his usual tartness, contends that this is the beginning of a new epistle by Simon, but not Simon Peter. But if so, why did Peter leave the words at the end of the second chapter unclosed...
BUT CONTINUE TO GROW. See 1 Peter 2:1-3 and notes. A failure to grow spiritually exposes you to the Devil's power!!! But you never progress _away from_ God's act in Christ to set you free: you progres...
_Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved._ IMMORTALITY AND SCIENCE It is a singular fact that these words have far more probability of truth than they had a generation ago. Then, the sta...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:17 KNOWING THIS BEFOREHAND. The readers have now been informed that the false teachers were distorting Paul’s teaching. Paul advocates neither sin nor lawlessness, so they sh...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:14 Concluding Encouragements. To obtain their final reward, believers must live a godly life and resist the immorality promoted by the false teachers (see...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— 2 Peter 3:14_ The Common Teaching of the Apostles.—St. Peter’s reference to St. Paul brings the relations of these two men to mind. At one time they were very strai...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 3:1 THIS SECOND EPISTLE, BELOVED, I NOW WRITE UNTO YOU; literally, _this Epistle already a second one I write unto you. _The ἤδη ("already") implies that the interval between th...
Now Peter said this second epistle, Beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the ho...
1 Peter 2:2; 1 Peter 5:10; 1 Peter 5:11; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 2 Peter 1:3
INEXCUSABLE IGNORANCE 2 Peter 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We like the way this chapter opens. The Apostle says, "This Second Epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure min...
But grow in grace — That is, in every Christian temper. There may be, for a time, grace without growth; as there may be natural life without growth. But such sickly life, of soul or body, will end in...