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

“ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, ”

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

Knowing this first - As among the first and most important things to be attended to - as one of the predictions which demand your special regard. Jude Jude 1:18 says that the fact that there wo...
2 Peter 3:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(2) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days (a) scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (2) He vouches the second coming of Christ against the Epicureans by name. (a) Monstrous...
2 Peter 3:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Peter 3:1 f. In this, as in his former letter, he is only reminding them of the OT prophecies and of the teaching of the apostles the twofold witness to which he had appealed in ch. 1. 2 Pe...
2 Peter 3:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

last days . See Acts 2:17 ; 2 Timothy 3:1 . scoffers . mockers. Greek. empaiktes. Only here and Jude 1:18 . walking . All the texts add after walking, "in (App-104.) mockery". Greek. empai...
2 Peter 3:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. Knowing this first. The participle knowing may be applied to the Apostle, and in this way, “I labor to stir you up for this reason, because I know what and how great is your impending...
2 Peter 3:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, Knowing this first - Considering this in an especial manner, that those prophets predicted the comi...
2 Peter 3:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Knowing this first— That is, either what was to happen first in order of time, or as a premise, from whence they might conclude, that they ought to remember the predictions of the prophets, and the...
2 Peter 3:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, Knowing this first - from the apostles. Shall come. Their very scoffing shall confirm t...
2 Peter 3:3 - 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 3:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

SECOND PREDICTION: Scoffers shall throw doubt on Christ’s return. (3) In the last days. — Comp. 1 Peter 1:20 ; Hebrews 1:2 ; and the parallel passage to this, Jude 1:18 . “Know this first, chil...
2 Peter 3:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 26 AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH 2 Peter 3:1-4 IN the previous chapter the Apostle showed how the renegade false teachers had published among the brethren their seductive doctrine declaring...
2 Peter 3:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Longsuffering Delay 2 Peter 3:1-9 Peter does not hesitate to place the commandments of himself and the other Apostles of Jesus on a level with the words which were spoken before by the holy pr...
2 Peter 3:3 - 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 3:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: (2) That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophe...
2 Peter 3:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Knowing this first ,.... In the first place, principally, and chiefly, and which might easily be known and observed from the writings of the apostles and prophets; see 1 Timothy 4:1 ; that there...
2 Peter 3:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, Ver. 3. Scoffers ] Those worst kind of sinners, Psalms 1:1 ; those abjects of the people, Psa...
2 Peter 3:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Knowing this first That your faith in the prophetic word may not be shaken, but that you may be armed and prepared for the trial; that there shall come in the last days The expression here used,...
2 Peter 3:3 - 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 3:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. A. D. 67. 3 Knowing this first, that there...
2 Peter 3:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Knowing this first; especially, as being very necessary to be known. The apostle having in the former chapter cautioned these saints against the more close enemies of the gospel, seducers and false...
2 Peter 3:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Promise of His Coming ( 2 Peter 3:3-7 ). ‘Knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,' Compare here Jude 1:17-18 , ‘remember the...
2 Peter 3:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF THE COMING CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES THE apostle now deals with those who made the delay of the Lord’s coming, and the disappointment consequently felt by many Ch...
2 Peter 3:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

2 Peter 3:3 Righteousness the School of Hope. Note: I. The cause which led persons to argue that Christ was gone never to return. It was the absence of change; the unvarying order and course of...
2 Peter 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

There shall come in the last days scoffers. The character of the last days I. The personal qualifications of the disputers here described. To be a scoffer is sure no very laudable character, be...
2 Peter 3:3 - 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 3:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Certain Coming of Christ and Its Lessons. A warning against scoffers:
2 Peter 3:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:18 ; 1 Timothy 4:1 ; 1 Timothy 4:2 ; 2 Corinthians 4:2 ; 2 Peter 2:10 ; 2 Timothy 3:1 ; Hosea 7:5 ; Isaiah 28:14 ; Isaiah 29:20 ; Isaiah 5:19 ; Jude 1:16 ; Jude 1:18 ; Proverbs...
2 Peter 3:3 - 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 3:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Peter 3:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2 Peter 3:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

2 Peter 3:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

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

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

2 Peter 3:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Peter 3:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

2 Peter 3:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary