2 Peter 1:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

2 Peter 1:20 —

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Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-21)

In these words the apostle lays down another argument to prove the truth and reality of the gospel, and intimates that this second proof is more strong and convincing than the former, and more unanswerably makes out that the doctrine of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is not a mere fable or cunning contrivance of men, but the wise and wonderful counsel of the holy and gracious God. F…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. “Forasmuch as ye know this” (1Pe 1:18). first--the foremost consideration in studying the word of prophecy. Laying it down as a first principle never to be lost sight of. is--Greek, not the simple verb, to be, but to begin to be, “proves to be,” “becometh.” No prophecy is found to be the result of “private (the mere individual writer’s uninspired) interpretation” (solution), and so origination…