2 Peter 3:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, ”

2 Peter 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved - Since this is an undoubted truth. What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness - In holy conduct and pie...
2 Peter 3:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(11) [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, (11) An exhortation to purity of life, setting before...
2 Peter 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Moreover the Lord is not really slow to fulfil His promise; He does not reckon time as men reckon. His seeming slowness is not the manifestation of His impotence, but of His long-suffering love ( cf....
2 Peter 3:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

dissolved . See "melt", 2 Peter 3:10 . be . See Luke 9:48 . conversation . See 1 Peter 1:15 . godliness . See 1 Timothy 2:2 .
2 Peter 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Heaven and earth, he says, shall pass away for our sakes; is it meet, then, for us to be engrossed with the things of earth, and not, on the contrary, to attend to a holy and godly life? The co...
2 Peter 3:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2428 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 2 Peter 3:10-14 . 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 m...
2 Peter 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, All these things shall be dissolved - They will all be sepa...
2 Peter 3:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved— Some would read this and the following verse thus; As then all these things are to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be?—Even su...
2 Peter 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Then. So 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate; but B C substitute ( hout...
2 Peter 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Antidote Against Despising the Day of the Lord. Exhortation. Doxology 2 Peter 3 may be subdivided into three parts: ( a ) 2 Peter 3:1-7 . 'This Second Epistle is a reminder of what prophets and...
2 Peter 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. — For “then” we ought probably to read “thus,” seeing that all these things are thus to be dissolved. The original is present in form, but ri...
2 Peter 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 29 "WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE?" 2 Peter 3:10-13 THE Apostle, ever earnest to put the brethren in mind of the things they had heard or read, never fails to follow his own pr...
2 Peter 3:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Holy Living and Godliness” 2 Peter 3:10-18 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 evi...
2 Peter 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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,...
2 Peter 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (12) Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wh...
2 Peter 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[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,...
2 Peter 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Ver. 11. What manner of men ] ποταπους, even to admirat...
2 Peter 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Seeing then that all these things Which our eyes behold; shall be dissolved And we shall be spectators of their dissolution, being raised from the dead before, or at the time of, its taking place...
2 Peter 3:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
2 Peter 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Solemn Exhortations. A. D. 67. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,...
2 Peter 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved; seeing the coming of the Lord will be so terrible, as to bring with it the consumption of the world, and the destruction of these things here b...
2 Peter 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reason For Delay And The Final Fulfilment ( 2 Peter 3:8-13 ).
2 Peter 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 2 Peter 3:8 . One day , etc.—The time-element gave opportunity to the scoffers. The time-measures of God must not be thought of as like those of men. It is to misre...
2 Peter 3:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 Advent. I. The Apostles lived, and prayed, and laboured in the continual expectation that Christ would come again to them, and speedily, and that this promise would be fulfilled in t...
2 Peter 3:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Peter 3:1-3 . This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up pour pure minds by way of remembrance: that ye may be mindful of the words which. were spoken before by t...
2 Peter 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 unclose...
2 Peter 3:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
2 Peter 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 interva...
2 Peter 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2 Peter 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 1:15 ; 1 Peter 2:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:5 ; 1 Timothy 3:16 ; 1 Timothy 4:12 ; 1 Timothy 6:11 ; 1 Timothy 6:3 ; 1 Timothy 6:6 ; 2 Corinthians 1:12 ; 2 Peter 1:3 ; 2 Peter 1:6 ; 2 P...
2 Peter 3:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Inexcusable Ignorance 2 Peter 3:1-18 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...
2 Peter 3:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Seeing then that all these things are dissolved — To the eye of faith it appears as done already. All these things — Mentioned before; all that are included in that scriptural expression, "the heav...

2 Peter 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Peter 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

2 Peter 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Peter 3:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 3:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

2 Peter 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Peter 3:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Peter 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Peter 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

2 Peter 3:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes