2 Peter 3:4
and saying, Where is his promised coming? for, from the time when the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as then, and as they have continued from the beginning of the creation.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3knowing this first, that there will come in the last days open scoffers following their own lusts,
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore doth the heart of the sons of men become bold within them to do evil.
Jeremiah 5:12They have denied Jehovah, And have said, “It is not He; Evil shall not come upon us, Nor shall we see sword or famine.
Ezekiel 11:3who say, “The time is not near that we should build houses. This city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.”
Malachi 2:17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words; Yet ye say, “Wherein have we wearied him?” In that ye say, “Every one of them that do evil Is good in the sight of Jehovah, And in them he hath delight”; Or, “Where is the God of judgment?”
Matthew 24:48But if the bad servant say in his heart, My lord is tarrying long;
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 →