2 Peter 3:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 1:6
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
2 Peter 1:12-15
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. …
1 Timothy 5:22
Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Psalms 24:4
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-2)

That the apostle might the better reach his end in writing this epistle, which is to make them steady and constant in a fiducial and practical remembrance of the doctrine of the gospel, he, 1. Expresses his special affection and tenderness for them, by calling them beloved, hereby evidencing that he added to godliness brotherly-kindness, as he had (2 Pet. 1:17) exhorted them to do. Ministers must…

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

(vv. 1)

2Pe 3:1-18. Sureness of Christ’s Coming, and Its Accompaniments, Declared in Opposition to Scoffers about to Arise. God’s Long Suffering a Motive to Repentance, as Paul’s Epistles Set Forth; Concluding Exhortation to Growth in the Knowledge of Christ. 1. now--“This now a second Epistle I write.” Therefore he had lately written the former Epistle. The seven Catholic Epistles were written by James,…