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2 Peter 3:1 KJV
2 Peter · chapter 3 · verse 1
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:2 Peter 3:1 · King James Version
2 Peter 3:1 in context
1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2That 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 Saviour:
3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- epistleepistolēa letter, epistleG1992 →
- belovedagapētosbeloved, esteemed, dear, favourite, worthy of loveG27 →
- seconddeuterosthe second, the other of twoG1208 →
- writegraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- mindsdianoiathe mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring, understanding, mindG1271 →
- pureeilikrinēspure, sincere, unsullied, found pure when unfolded and examined by the sun s lightG1506 →
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That the apostle might the better reach his end in writing this epistle, which is to make them steady and constant in a fiducial and practical remembrance of the doctrine of the gospel, he, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-2