2 Peter 3:2

that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

American Standard Version

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

1This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;

3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

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Cross References

Luke 24:27And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Acts 3:18But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

Acts 3:24Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

Acts 28:23And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded [the matter,] testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

1 Peter 1:10Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that [should come] unto you:

2 Peter 2:21For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto 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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