2 Peter 3:4

and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, since our fathers fell asleep, every thing remaineth just as from the beginning of the creation.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 previously, that there will come in the last days scoffers, who will scoff, walking according to their own lusts;

5For this they willingly forget, that the heavens were of old; and the earth rose up from the waters, and by means of water, by the word of God.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:48But if that servant, being wicked, shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his 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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