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2 Peter 1:12
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.
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.
Verse 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...
WHEREFORE I WILL NOT BE NEGLIGENT - That is, in view of the importance of these things. TO PUT YOU ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE - To give you the means of having them always in remembrance; to wit, by his w...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE GRACIOUS PROVISIONS OF GOD CHAPTER 1 _ 1. God's gracious provisions in Christ (2 Peter 1:1)_ 2. The development of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:5) 3. The promises o...
So long as he lives, it is his duty as an apostle to impress these truths upon them, especially since he anticipates a sudden death. ( 2 PETER 1:14. SWIFTLY: render suddenly the reference is to the pr...
It is for this reason that I intend constantly to remind you of these things, although you already know them, and although you are already firmly established in the truth which you possess. I think it...
THE MAN WHO OPENED DOORS (2 Peter 1:1) _ 1:1 Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, writes this letter to those to whom there has been allotted a faith equal in honour and privilege wit...
NOT. App-105. NEGLIGENT. Greek. _ameleo_. See 1 Timothy 4:14. PUT... IN REMEMBRANCE. Greek. _hupomimnesko._ See John 14:26. KNOW. App-132. ESTABLISHED. Compare 1 Peter 5:10
_Wherefore I will not be negligent_ Many of the better MSS. have the reading "I will proceed to put you in remembrance," but the Received Text is fairly supported. The words in either case indicate th...
ΔΙΌ. Seeing the great issues which hang upon all this. ΜΕΛΛΉΣΩ�. “I shall be about to remind you always” is undoubtedly a very awkward phrase. The R.V. gives “I shall be ready always to put you in rem...
ΜΕΛΛΉΣΩ _fut. act. ind. от_ ΜΈΛΛΩ (G3195) собираться, быть на грани. Гл. используется с _inf._ для выражения идеи: "Я позабочусь напомнить вам". Эта мысль об обязанности напомнить читателям снова появ...
DISCOURSE: 2421 A PASTORAL ADMONITION 2 Peter 1:12. 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. Y...
WHEREFORE— That is, "Because in this way alone you can have an admittance into Christ's everlasting kingdom." _I will not be negligent,_ by a common figure signifies, "I will make use of the greatest...
2 PETER 1:12 WHEREFORE I SHALL BE READY ALWAYS TO PUT YOU IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS, THOUGH YE KNOW THEM, AND ARE ESTABLISHED IN THE TRUTH WHICH IS WITH YOU. _Expanded Translation_ On this accou...
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. WHEREFORE - as these graces are so necessary to you...
VERSE 12. WHEREFORE I WILL NOT BE NEGLIGENT. Peter here speaks of his own duty to the brotherhood, and tells them he will not neglect to remind them of these things, although he assumes that they all...
1 The introduction of the name Simeon, before Peter, and slave in addition to apostle, gives us a clue to the character of this second epistle. The emphasis is laid on practice rather than precept. It...
1:12 careful (e-5) Or 'use diligence,' 'take care it shall be so.'...
GREEETING. THANKSGIVING. EXHORTATION TO PROGEESS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM ONE WHO REMEMBERS JESUS CHRIST 2 Peter 1 may be subdivided into two parts: (_a_) 2 Peter 1:1, greeting followed by a declaration...
THE PRESENT TRUTH] RV 'the truth which is with _you._'...
Peter did not think that his readers were weak Christians. They already knew the true *gospel message. They may have heard this message from Peter himself in his first letter. They may have heard it f...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THIS LETTER THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. His name used to be Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42...
I WILL NOT BE NEGLIGENT. — According to the right reading, _I shall be sure to_; because on your doing these things depends your entrance into Christ’s kingdom. THOUGH YE KNOW THEM. — We find the same...
(12-15) Transition from the exhortation just concluded to the argument that follows, closely and naturally connected with both....
CHAPTER 21 THE VOICE HEARD IN THE HOLY MOUNT 2 Peter 1:12 UP to this point the Apostle has spoken of God's abundant grace and the consequent duties of believers. And he has set forth these duties in...
_The aim of the writer, and the urgency of his message_. “You are already acquainted with and established in the truth, so far as revealed to you, but, in view of the great issues, I shall always be p...
μελλήσω. What is the exact significance of the future? It can hardly be simply a periphrastic future. “The idea is rather that the writer will be prepared in the future, as well as in the past and in...
“EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY” 2 Peter 1:12 Peter could never forget what the Master had predicted of his death. See John 21:18. Oh, that in our death, whatever be its mode, we may glorify God! The f...
This Epistle was addressed to the same persons as was the first. Its purpose was to strengthen them in view of dangers threatening them within the Church. The apostle addressed them as having 'like pr...
PETER'S PERSONAL CONCERN Because Peter wanted his readers to receive the blessing of heaven, he wrote to remind them of some truths they already knew. It is the job of those proclaiming the truth to e...
(9) 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. (9) An amplifying of the conclusion joined with...
_I will begin. [3] That is, by the Greek, I will take care. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Incipiam, _Greek: ouk ameleso, non omittam, non negligam, &c._...
"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. (13) Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this ta...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
12._Wherefore I will not be negligent_. As we seem to distrust either the memory or the attention of those whom we often remind of the same thing, the Apostle makes this modest excuse, that he ceased...
The Second Epistle of Peter is even more simple than the First. Like those of Jude and John, it is written essentially with a view to the seducers, who, with large promises of liberty, beguiled souls...
WHEREFORE I WILL NOT BE NEGLIGENT,.... The apostle having made use of proper arguments to excite the saints he writes to regard the exhortation he had given, to the diligent exercise of grace, and dis...
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. Ver. 12. _I will not be negligent_] Ministers must...
2 Pet. 1:12. "_ 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_." By the present truth seems to be inte...
_Wherefore_ Considering the evil consequent on the want or neglect of these graces, and the benefit which will arise from the exercise of them; since everlasting destruction would be the consequence o...
Peter writes not only as an apostle (as in his first epistle), but as a bondman and apostle. So authority is not only stressed, but lowliness of subjection, a precious reminder in days of deter-mined...
_2 Peter 1:12 ‘Therefore,. shall always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.'_ ‘THEREFORE' -The...
12-15 We must be established in the belief of the truth, that we may not be shaken by every wind of doctrine; and especially in the truth necessary for us to know in our day, what belongs to our peac...
I WILL NOT BE NEGLIGENT; i.e. I will be diligent and careful. THOUGH YE KNOW THEM: he prevents an objection; q.d. Though ye know these things already, yet being things of great moment, and you being b...
2 Peter 1:12 reason G1352 will G272 not G3756 negligent G272 (G5692) remind G5279 (G5721) you G5209 always...
PETER EMPHASISES HIS WILLINGNESS TO CONTINUE EXHORTING THEM, AND THE RIGHTNESS OF DOING SO, AND HE PROMISES THAT HE WILL PURSUE IT WITH TRUE DILIGENCE (2 PETER 1:12) Peter now stresses his readiness a...
‘For which reason I will be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and are established in the truth which is with you.' ‘For which reason.' Because of His glory...
2 Peter 1:12. WHEREFORE I SHALL ALWAYS BE READY TO PUT YOU IN REMEMBRANCE REGARDING THESE THINGS. The ‘wherefore' represents the resolution now expressed as having its reason in what has been already...
The writer next expresses his resolution to use the brief portion of life now remaining to him in recalling the attention of his readers to the great truths to which he has been referring, and in maki...
WHEREFORE (διο). Since they are possessed of faith that conduces to godliness which they are diligently practising now he insists on the truth and proposes to do his part by them about it.I SHALL B...
2 Peter 1:9. _But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off,_ He is short-sighted; he has some light, and some physical sight, but he cannot see to a distance; spiritually, he is...
2 Peter 1:1. _Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:_ Peter here...
CONTENTS: The great Christian virtues. God's Word exalted. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Christian should be diligent to add one Christian grace to another that he may bring glory...
2 Peter 1:1. _Simon Peter,_ the Greek is Symeon, as in two other places of the Greek text. _To them that have obtained like precious faith,_ the christians of every name. _Through the righteousness of...
FOR THIS REASON. "So that you will make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience and be given the full right to enter the eternal Kingdom, I always remind you of the TRUTH of the histor...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:12 Peter’s Reminder to the Churches. Peter contrasts the truth about Christ and the falsehood of man-made myths. In light of this certain truth, the church should focus on li...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 2 Peter 1:12. PRESENT TRUTH.—Not some particular phase of truth, but the truth which you have and hold. 2 Peter 1:14. SHOWED ME.—The reference cannot be to John 21:18,...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 1:1 SIMON PETER. "Symeon" seems to be the best-supported spelling in this place. The same form of the name is found in Luke 2:25 and Acts 13:1; it also occurs in...
Second Peter. Simon Peter (2 Peter 1:1), The name Simon, of course, was the given name. Peter is the name that Jesus gave to him. He is, a bondslave and an apostle (2 Peter 1:1) It seems that bond...
1 John 2:21; 1 Peter 5:10; 1 Peter 5:12; 1 Timothy 4:6; 2 Peter 1:13;...
I will not be negligent. The A. V. follows the reading oujk ajmelhsw, which it renders correctly. The better reading, however, is mellhsw, I intend, or, as often in classical Greek, with a sense of ce...
A CALL TO GREATER THINGS 2 Peter 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The author of the Epistle. It is most refreshing and certainly inspiring to open the Bible and find an Epistle which is indited by the Hol...
Wherefore — Since everlasting destruction attends your sloth, everlasting glory your diligence, I will not neglect always to remind you of these things — Therefore he wrote another, so soon after the...
Observe here, 1. The persons to whom the apostle gave the foregoing exhortation to progressiveness and proficiency in holiness, they were knowing persons, yea, established persons, they were both info...