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2 Peter 3:3-4 KJV
2 Peter · chapter 3 · verses 3–4
3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.2 Peter 3:3-4 · King James Version
2 Peter 3:3-4 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,
4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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- beginningarchēbeginning, origin, the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a…G746 →
- scoffersempaiktēsa mocker, a scofferG1703 →
- continuehoytō(s)in this manner, thus, soG3779 →
- continuediamenōto stay permanently, remain permanently, continueG1265 →
- Knowingginōskōto learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel, to become known, to…G1097 →
- walkingporeuōto lead over, carry over, transfer, to pursue the journey on which one has entered, to…G4198 →
- promiseepangeliaannouncement, promise, the act of promising, a promise given or to be given, a promised…G1860 →
- fatherspatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
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To quicken and excite us to a serious minding and firm adhering to what God has revealed to us by the prophets and apostles, we are told that there will be scoffers, men who will make a mock of sin, and of salvation from it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-7