D.
God's judgment on the heretical mockers
3:1-9
2 Pet. 3
:1
3:1
This second letter, beloved, I now write to you; in them
both I
astir up your sincere mind with a
breminder,
2 Pet. 3
:2
3:2
So that you would
aremember the
1bwords spoken before by the holy
cprophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior
preached by your
dapostles;
2 Pet. 3
:3
3:3
Knowing this first, that in the
1alast of days
2bmockers will come with mocking, going on according to their own
clusts
2 Pet. 3
:4
3:4
And saying,
aWhere is the
1bpromise of His
2ccoming? For since the
dfathers fell
easleep, all things continue in this way from the
fbeginning of
gcreation.
2 Pet. 3
:5
3:5
For 1this escapes them by their own choosing, that by the
2aword of God the
3bheavens cwere of old and the
3earth was
4compacted out of water and through
dwater,
2 Pet. 3
:6
3:6
Through 1which the
2aworld 3then, being
4bflooded with water,
5cperished.
2 Pet. 3
:7
3:7
But the
aheavens and the earth
1now, by the
2same bword, have been
cstored up for
3dfire, being
ekept unto the
fday of
4judgment and
5gdestruction of
6hungodly men.
2 Pet. 3
:8
3:8
But do not let this one thing
1escape you, beloved, that with the Lord
2one day is like a thousand years and a
athousand years like one day.
2 Pet. 3
:9
3:9
The Lord
1does not
adelay regarding the
bpromise, as
2some count
3cdelay, but is
4dlong-suffering toward you, not intending that any
5eperish but that
6fall advance to
7grepentance.
E.
God's judgment on the heavens and the earth
3:10-12
2 Pet. 3
:10
3:10
But the
1aday of the Lord will
2come as a
bthief, in
3which the
4cheavens will pass away with a
5roar, and the
6elements, burning with intense heat, will be
7ddissolved, and the
eearth and the
8works in it will be
7burned up.
2 Pet. 3
:11
3:11
Since 1all these things
2are to be thus dissolved, what kind of persons ought you to be
3in aholy manner of life and
bgodliness,
2 Pet. 3
:12
3:12
1aExpecting and hastening the
2coming of the
3day of God, on account of
4which the heavens, being on
bfire, will be dissolved, and the elements, burning with intense heat, are to be melted away?
F.
Expectation of the new heavens and the new earth filled with God's righteousness
3:13
2 Pet. 3
:13
3:13
But according to His
1apromise we are expecting
2bnew heavens and a new earth, in which
3righteousness 4dwells.
G.
Preparation for the coming judgment
3:14-16
1.
To be found by Him in peace
v.14
2 Pet. 3
:14
3:14
Therefore,
abeloved, since you expect these things, be diligent to be
1bfound by Him in
cpeace 2without spot and
dwithout blemish;
2.
To be saved from destruction
vv. 15-16
2 Pet. 3
:15
3:15
And 1count the
2along-suffering of our Lord
to be 3bsalvation, even as
4also our beloved brother
cPaul, according to the
dwisdom given to him, wrote to you,
2 Pet. 3
:16
3:16
As also in
1all his letters, speaking in them concerning
2these things, in which some things are
ahard to understand, which the unlearned and
bunstable 3twist, as also the
2rest of the
cScriptures, to their own
4destruction.
IV.
Conclusion — be on guard and grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord
3:17-18
2 Pet. 3
:17
3:17
You therefore, beloved, since you know
these things beforehand,
1be on your guard lest being
2carried away by the error of the
3lawless, you
4afall from your own
bsteadfastness.
2 Pet. 3
:18
3:18
But 1agrow in the
2grace and
3bknowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
4To Him be the
cglory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.
