2 Peter - Verse-by-Verse Biblical Exegesis

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Since our resurrection bodies will be free of sin, we will be capable of living in perfect happiness and perfect righteousness (Perfective Present tense). The underlying message to the false teachers and their reversionistic followers is that the future belongs to righteousness, not depravity in the lust patterns of the old sin nature. So they might as well “get with God’s program” now and “get a little practice in” before that future day. The fulfillment of His promise in this future scenario should remind them of their mocking of His promise in 3:4. Everything is happening according to His omniscient timing, including the fulfillment of the very promises they are ridiculing and denying. Their scoffing at an alleged delay in His plans is merely arrogance and ignorance on their part. RELEVANT OPINIONS The present heavens and earth, beautiful as they are, are under the curse placed upon them because of Adam’s sin. The new heavens and earth, new in quality, free from any curse, will surely be beautiful beyond the wildest expectation of man. (K. Wuest) The old cosmic system will then give away to a new heaven and a new earth and this is what believers are looking forward to, not to the earth’s destruction. The new heaven and new earth, given by the promise of God, will finally be the home or dwelling place of righteousness, in which righteousness dwells permanently. It will be the home of righteousness because the Righteous One will be there. What a contrast this will be to the world’s unrighteousness! (K. Gangel) In it the moral attribute of righteousness (personified) is no longer a wanderer and a guest, but dwells securely in her own eternal home. (D. Hiebert) Of course, this great explosion and conflagration will not touch the “heaven of heavens” where God dwells. It will destroy the earth and the atmospheric heavens around it, the universe as we know it; this will make room for the new heavens and earth. (W. Wiersbe) The contast between the millennial kingdom and the eternal age is that during the millennial kingdom righteousness will reign, whereas in the eternal state, righteousness will dwell. In the millennial kingdom government will be established upon the shoulder of the Lord Jesus Christ … The moment you have perfect willingness on the part of subjects in a kingdom, you need no police force, no enforcement of authority, and that is the state of affairs in the new heavens and the new earth. (T. Westwood) 2 Peter 3:13 Then (transitional; after destruction of the old universe) we will be looking forward with great expectation for (prosdoka,w, PAI1P, Futuristic) the new (Qual. Acc.) heavens (Acc. Dir. Obj.; earth’s atmosphere and rest of the universe) and (connective) the new (Qual. Acc.) earth (Acc. Dir. Obj.) according to His (Poss. Gen.) promise (Adv. Acc.), during which time (Loc. Time) righteousness (Subj. Nom.; capacity for perfect happiness) will be permanently at home (katoike,w, PAI3S, Futuristic & Perfective; settled in, no sin in our resurrection bodies). BGT 2 Peter 3:13 kainou.j de. ouvranou.j kai. gh/n kainh.n kata. to. evpa,ggelma auvtou/ prosdokw/men( evn oi-j dikaiosu,nh katoikei/Å
VUL 2 Peter 3:13 novos vero caelos et novam terram et promissa ipsius expectamus in quibus iustitia habitat LWB 2 Peter 3:14 Therefore, beloved [members of the royal family], since you are eagerly looking for these things [signs of the coming of the day of the Lord], be diligent [by doctrinal inculcation] to be found by Him [Jesus Christ] spotless [supergrace A status] and blameless [supergrace B status], in prosperity [ultrasupergrace status]. KW 2 Peter 3:14 On which account, divinely loved ones, since you are looking for these things, do your best to be found with reference to Him irreproachable and unblameable, in peace. KJV 2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Since his readers are going to be eagerly looking forward to the signs of the coming of the day of the Lord (Causal Participle), he commands them to be diligent in doctrinal inculcation (Imperative mood). Peter wants them to be found by Jesus Christ when He returns (Result Participle) in one spiritual stage or another – as opposed to carnality and reversionism. The ingressive aorist means he wants them to start being more diligent in their spiritual life; the culminative aorist points to their ultimate evaluation at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Some commentators see the next three items as a mere list: spotless, blameless, and in prosperity. Thieme sees these three descriptions as stages in the spiritual life. Spotless (Latin: immaculate) refers to supergrace A status, blameless (Latin: inviolate) refers to supergrace B status, and in prosperity (Latin: in peace) refers to ultra-supergrace status. However you see them, they are honorable goals to aspire to in the Christian way of life – not to mention a great 3-point outline! RELEVANT OPINIONS This word “to make every effort” stresses the responsibility of the individual Christian to exert himself in developing Christian conduct. (S. Kistemaker) This life, this growth, this process demands constant cultivation day after day, week after week, year after year. There is no end to the process of maturing in spiritual things. The one who has been a believer fifty years has before him yet unpossessed land, just as the one who has been a believer for five years, or five months, has before him unpossessed land. (J. Pentecost) What are your goals? Are you a productive Christian moving toward a worthwhile goal? What is really the object of your life? Is it to live for God? If you live for God, all of the secondary issues, I believe, will take care of themselves. (J. McGee) Instead of following the teaching and example of the false teachers, themselves “spots and blemishes” (2:13), let the readers endeavor to be like their Lord, “without spot and blemish.” (D. Hiebert) 2 Peter 3:14 Therefore (inferential), beloved (Voc. Address; members of the royal family), since you are eagerly looking
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stress on knowledge. The more we re
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can really know Him ... Greater kno
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TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Peter contin
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which whosoever lives is counted de
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doctrine in daily life, the more th
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He who is not adding to his knowled
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very moment that Christ is received
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eality” that Peter could choose b
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continual application (poie,w, PMIn
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as they were borne on by the Holy S
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keeping them from sin and error. (S
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that they are Christians ... Even a
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chose to live in Jordan’s fertile
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