2 Peter 3:4
Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 19:14So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said : Arise : get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
Ecclesiastes 8:11For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.
Jeremiah 5:12They have denied the Lord, and said, It is not he: and the evil shall not come upon us: we shall not see the sword and famine.
Ezekiel 11:3Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.
Malachi 2:17You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?
Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming:
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:4-8
The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. ( a. d. 67.) 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 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. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being… Read the whole commentary →