2 Peter 1:1-13 WEB

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:6

Temperance - A proper and limited use of all earthly enjoyments, keeping every sense under proper restraints, and never permitting the animal part to subjugate the rational. Patience - Bearing all trials and difficulties with an even mind, enduring in all, and persevering through all. Godliness - Piety towards God; a deep, reverential, religious fear; not only worshipping God with every becoming outward act, but adoring, loving, and magnifying him in the heart: a disposition... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:7

Brotherly kindness - Φιλαδελφιαν· Love of the brotherhood - the strongest attachment to Christ's flock; feeling each as a member of your own body. Charity - Αγαπην· Love to the whole human race, even to your persecutors: love to God and the brethren they had; love to all mankind they must also have. True religion is neither selfish nor insulated; where the love of God is, bigotry cannot exist. Narrow, selfish people, and people of a party, who scarcely have any hope of the salvation... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:8

For if these things be in you and abound - If ye possess all there graces, and they increase and abound in your souls, they will make - show, you to be neither αργους , idle, nor ακαρπους , unfruitful, in the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ. The common translation is here very unhappy: barren and unfruitful certainly convey the same ideas; but idle or inactive, which is the proper sense of αργους , takes away this tautology, and restores the sense. The graces already mentioned... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:9

But he that lacketh these things - He, whether Jew or Gentile, who professes to have Faith in God, and has not added to that Faith fortitude, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and universal love; is blind - his understanding is darkened, and cannot see afar off, μυωπαζων , shutting his eyes against the light, winking, not able to look truth in the face, nor to behold that God whom he once knew was reconciled to him: and thus it appears he is wilfully blind,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:10

Wherefore - Seeing the danger of apostasy, and the fearful end of them who obey not the Gospel, and thus receive the grace of God in vain; give all diligence, σπουδασατε , hasten, be deeply careful, labor with the most intense purpose of soul. To make your calling - From deep Gentile darkness into the marvellous light of the Gospel. And election - Your being chosen, in consequence of obeying the heavenly calling, to be the people and Church of God. Instead of κλησιν , calling,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:11

For so an entrance shall be ministered - If ye give diligence; and do not fall, an abundant, free, honorable, and triumphant entrance shall be ministered to you into the everlasting kingdom. There seems to be here an allusion to the triumphs granted by the Romans to their generals who had distinguished themselves by putting an end to a war, or doing some signal military service to the state. (See the whole account of this military pageant in the note on 2 Corinthians 2:14 .) "Ye shall have... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:12

Wherefore I will not be negligent - He had already written one epistle, this is the second; and probably he meditated more should he be spared. He plainly saw that there was no way of entering into eternal life but that which he described from the 5th to the 10th verse; and although they knew and were established in the present truth, yet he saw it necessary to bring these things frequently to their recollection. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:13

As long as I am in this tabernacle - By tabernacle we are to understand his body; and hence several of the versions have σωματι , body, instead of σκηνωματι , tabernacle. Peter's mode of speaking is very remarkable: as long as I AM in this tabernacle, so then the body was not Peter, but Peter dwelt in that body. Is not this a proof that St. Peter believed his soul to be very distinct from his body? As a man's house is the place where he dwells, so the body is the house where the soul... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:1

Verse 1 1.Simon Peter. Prayer takes the first place at the beginning of this Epistle, and then follows thanksgiving, by which he excites the Jews to gratitude, lest they should forget what great benefits they had already received from God's hand. Why he called himself the servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, we have elsewhere stated, even because no one is to be heard in the Church, except he speaks as from the mouth of Christ. But the word servant has a more general meaning, because it... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:2

Verse 2 2.Grace and peace. By grace is designated God’s paternal favor towards us. We have indeed been once for all reconciled to God by the death of Christ, and by faith we come to the possession of this so great a benefit; but as we perceive the grace of God according to the measure of our faith, it is said to increase according to our perception when it becomes more fully known to us. Peace is added; for as the beginning of our happiness is when God receives us into favor; so the more he... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:2

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