2 Peter 3:4

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3knowing this first: that mockers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

5For they deliberately overlook this fact: that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago, and the earth, standing out of water and in the water,

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Cross References

Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My master is delaying to come,’

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 →

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