2 Peter 3:2

That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

In Context

1Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:

3Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

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Cross References

Luke 24:27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures, the things that were concerning him.

Acts 3:18But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

Acts 3:24And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken, have told of these days.

Acts 28:23And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.

1 Peter 1:10Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.

2 Peter 2:21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of justice, than after they have known it, to turn back from that holy commandment which was delivered to them.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:2-3

Adhere to Words of the Prophets and Commandments of the Apostles. ( a. d. 67.) 1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: That the apostle might the better reach his end in writing this epistle, which is to make them steady and constant in a fiducial and practical remembrance of the doctrine… Read the whole commentary →

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