2 Peter 3:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 stedfastness.

Ye - warned by the case of those "unlearned and unstable" persons (2 Peter 3:16). Know ... before - the event.

Led away with - the term, as Peter remembers, used by Paul of Barnabas' being 'carried' х sunapeechthee (G4879)] (Galatians 2:13), led away with, Peter and the other Jews in their hypocrisy. Wicked, х athesmoon (G113)] - 'lawless,' as 2 Peter 2:7.

Fall from - grace (Galatians 5:4): the true source of "stedfastness" or stability in contrast with the "unstable" (2 Peter 3:16): "established" (2 Peter 1:12): all kindred terms (Jude 1:20-21).

2 Peter 3:17

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 stedfastness.