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Selected Verse: 2 Peter 3:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Pe 3:17 |
King James |
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Ye--warned by the case of those "unlearned and unstable" persons (Pe2 3:16).
knowing . . . before--the event.
led away with--the very term, as Peter remembers, used by Paul of Barnabas' being "carried," Greek, "led away with" Peter and the other Jews in their hypocrisy.
wicked--"lawless," as in Pe2 2:7.
fall from--(grace, Gal 5:4 : the true source of) "steadfastness" or stability in contrast with the "unstable" (Pe2 3:16): "established" (Pe2 1:12): all kindred Greek terms. Compare Jde 1:20-21. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Seeing that ye know these things before - Being aware of this danger, and knowing that such results may follow. People should read the Bible with the feeling that it is possible that they may fall into error, and be deceived at last. This apprehension will do much to make them diligent, and candid, and prayerful, in studying the Word of God.
With the error of the wicked - Wicked men. Such as he had referred to in 2 Pet. 2, who became public teachers of religion.
Fall from your own steadfastness - Your firm adherence to the truth. The particular danger here referred to is not that of falling from grace, or from true religion, but from the firm and settled principles of religious truth into error. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Being led away (συναπαχθέντες)
Better, Rev., carried away. It is the word used by Paul of Barnabas, when he dissembled with Peter at Antioch. "Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation" (Gal 2:13).
Of the wicked (ἀθέσμων)
See on Pe2 2:7.
Fall from (ἐκπέσητε)
Lit., "fall out of." Compare Gal 5:4.
Steadfastness (στηριγμοῦ)
Only here in New Testament. See on Pe2 1:12.
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| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Seeing ye know - before - Seeing that by prophets and apostles you have been thus forewarned, beware, φυλασσεσθε, keep watch, be on your guard; cleave to God and the word of his grace, lest ye be led away from the truth delivered by the prophets and apostles, by the error of the wicked, αθεσμων, of the lawless - those who wrest the Scriptures to make them countenance their lusts, exorbitant exactions, and lawless practices.
Fall from your own steadfastness - From that faith in Christ which has put you in possession of that grace which establishes the heart. |
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.