2 Peter 3:4

will come and ask scoffingly – ‘Where is his promised coming? Ever since our ancestors passed to their rest, everything remains just as it was when the world was first created!’

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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

3First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,

5For they willfully shut their eyes to the fact that long ago the heavens existed; and the earth, also – formed out of water and by the action of water, by the fiat of God;

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Cross References

Genesis 19:14So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, “Up, go out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city.” But his sons-in-law thought he was only joking.

Malachi 2:17You have wearied the Lord with your words. You ask, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Matthew 24:48But, should the servant be a bad servant, and say to themselves ‘My master is a long time in 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 →

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