2 Peter 3:7-10 KJV,ASV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:3-7

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. God's way of saving sinners by Jesus Christ is what men will scoff at, and that in the last days, under the gospel. This indeed may seem very strange, that the New-Testament dispensation of the covenant of grace, which is spiritual and therefore more agreeable to the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:8

The apostle comes in these words to instruct and establish Christians in the truth of the coming of the Lord, where we may clearly discern the tenderness and affection wherewith he speaks to them, calling them beloved; he had a compassionate concern and a love of good-will for the ungodly wretches who refused to believe divine revelation, but he has a peculiar respect for the true believers, and the remaining ignorance and weakness that the apprehends to be in them make him jealous, and put... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9-10

We are here told that the Lord is not slack?he does not delay beyond the appointed time; as God kept the time that he had appointed for the delivering of Israel out of Egypt, to a day (Exod. 12:41), so he will keep to the time appointed in coming to judge the world. What a difference is there between the account which God makes and that which men make! Good men are apt to think God stays beyond the appointed time, that is, the time which they have set for their own and the church's... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:7

3:7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth are treasured up for fire, reserved for the day of judgment and the destruction of impious men. It is Peter's conviction that, as the ancient world was destroyed by water, the present world will be destroyed by fire. He says that that is stated "by the same word." What he means is that the Old Testament tells of the flood in the past and warns of the destruction by fire in the future. There are many passages in the prophets which he... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:8-9

3:8-9 Beloved, you must not shut your eyes to this one fact that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. It is not that God is dilatory in fulfilling his promise, as some people reckon dilatoriness; but it is that for your sakes he patiently withholds his hand, because he does not wish any to perish, but wishes all to take the way to repentance. There are in this passage three great truths on which to nourish the mind and rest the heart. (i) Time is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:10

3:10 But when it does come, the Day of the Lord will come as a thief and in it the heavens will pass away with a crackling roar; the stars will blaze and melt; and the earth and all its works will disappear. It inevitably happens that a man has to speak and think in the terms which he knows. That is what Peter is doing here. He is speaking of the New Testament doctrine of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, but he is describing it in terms of the Old Testament doctrine of the Day of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:7

But the heavens and the earth which are now ,.... In being, in distinction from, and opposition to the heavens that were of old, and the earth standing in and out of the water, and the world that then was when the waters of the flood overflowed it: by the same word are kept in store ; that is, by the word of God, as in 2 Peter 3:5 ; and the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "by his word"; by the same word that the heavens and the earth were made of old, or in the beginning,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing ,.... Here the apostle addresses the saints he writes unto, and for whom he had a tender affection and regard, and for whose welfare he was concerned, lest they should be stumbled at the length of time since the promise of the coming of Christ was given, and which these scoffers object; and therefore he would have them know, observe, and consider this one thing, which might be of great use to them to make their minds easy, and keep up their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise ,.... The Syriac version reads in the plural, "his promises", any of his promises; though the words seem rather to regard the particular promise of Christ's coming, either to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, of which coming there was a promise made, and is often referred to by Christ, and his apostles; see Mark 9:1 Hebrews 10:37 ; and it now being upwards of thirty years since it was given out, some men began to charge God with slackness... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ,.... That is, the Lord will come in that day, which he has fixed, according to his promise, than which nothing is more certain; and he will come as a thief in the night: he will come "in the night", which may be literally understood; for as his first coming was in the night; see Luke 2:8 ; so perhaps his second coming may be in the night season; or figuratively, when it will be a time of great darkness; when there will be little... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:3-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9-10

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:7

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:8-9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:10

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