2 Peter 3:4 KJV — MannaFest

2 Peter 3:4

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

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ASV

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

WEB

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”

YLT

and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

DBT

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from [the] beginning of [the] creation.

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2 Peter — Peter's farewell letter — a warning against false teachers, a defence of Christ's return, and the Lord's patience unwilling that any should perish.

Author: Peter (1:1) — the book identifies itself as his farewell (1:13–15)
Date: Mid-60s AD, shortly before Peter's martyrdom under Nero

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Jeremiah 17:15
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.
Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Luke 12:45
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
Jeremiah 5:12–13
They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

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Without this, all the other articles of the Christian faith will signify very little; this is that which fills up and gives the finishing stroke to all the rest. The promised Messiah has come, he was made flesh, and dwelt among us; he is altogether such a one as in stated before, and has done all that for us which has been before taken notice of.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

11 ); thus they act themselves, and thus they would persuade others to act; so here, say they, " The fathers have fallen asleep, those are all dead to whom the promise was made, and it was never made good in their time, and there is no likelihood that it ever will be in any time; why should we trouble ourselves about it?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

What becomes of the promise which you talk so much of? his--Christ's; the subject of prophecy from the earliest days. the fathers--to whom the promise was made, and who rested all their hopes on it. all things--in the natural world; skeptics look not beyond this. as they were--continue as they do; as we see them to continue.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Saying, Where is the promise of his coming - To judgment (They do not even deign to name him.) We see no sign of any such thing. For ever since the fathers - Our first ancestors.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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