2 Peter 3:3

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last dayes scoffers, walking after their owne lusts,
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with {their} mocking, following after their own lusts,
- New American Standard Version (1995)

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
- American Standard Version (1901)

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
- Basic English Bible

knowing this first, that there shall come at [the] close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
- Darby Bible

Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
- Webster's Bible

But, above all, remember that, in the last days, men will come who make a mock at everything--men governed only by their own passions,
- Weymouth Bible

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
- World English Bible

First wite ye this thing, that in the laste daies disseyueris schulen come in disseit, goynge aftir her owne coueityngis,
- Wycliffe Bible

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,
- Youngs Literal Bible

Bible commentary

Wesley's Notes for 2 Peter 3:3


3:2-3 Be the more mindful thereof, because ye know scoffers will come first - Before the Lord comes. Walking after their own evil desires - Here is the origin of the error, the root of libertinism. Do we not see this eminently fulfilled?

3:4 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. Fell asleep, all things - Heaven. water, earth. Continue as they were from the beginning of the creation - Without any such material change as might make us believe they will ever end.

3:5 For this they are willingly ignorant of - They do not care to know or consider. That by the almighty word of God - Which bounds the duration of all things, so that it cannot be either longer or shorter. Of old - Before the flood. The aerial heavens were, and the earth - Not as it is now, but standing out of the water and in the water - Perhaps the interior globe of earth was fixed in the midst of the great deep, the abyss of water; the shell or exterior globe standing out of the water, covering the great deep. This, or some other great and manifest difference between the original and present constitution of the terraqueous globe, seems then to have been so generally known, that St. Peter charges their ignorance of it totally upon their wilfulness.


People's Bible Notes for 2 Peter 3:3


2Pe 3:3 Knowing this first. The apostles and prophets have reminded them that there will be scoffers in the last days. Under the last dispensation.

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