2 Peter 3:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

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Atheism Attributes of God Day God Guidance Lord Majesty Theology

Commentary

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

(vv. 8)

The apostle comes in these words to instruct and establish Christians in the truth of the coming of the Lord, where we may clearly discern the tenderness and affection wherewith he speaks to them, calling them beloved; he had a compassionate concern and a love of good-will for the ungodly wretches who refused to believe divine revelation, but he has a peculiar respect for the true believers, and t…

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

(vv. 8)

8. be not ignorant--as those scoffers are (2Pe 3:5). Besides the refutation of them (2Pe 3:5-7) drawn from the history of the deluge, here he adds another (addressed more to believers than to the mockers): God’s delay in fulfilling His promise is not, like men’s delays, owing to inability or fickleness in keeping His word, but through “long-suffering.” this one thing--as the consideration of chief…