2 Peter 3. 4:1–6; 2 Tim. Psalm 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! To linger, delay, be idle. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 1 Pt 1:10–12, 16–21, especially 16–21; Eph 2:20. 3 Dear friends, i this is now my second letter to you. 1 Pt 1:10–12, 16–21, especially 16–21; Eph 2:20. 2 Peter 3. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural. Read more Share Copy From plasso; moulded, i.e. 2 Peter 2:14,15 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: …. Their sentence has long since been pronounced, is working, and in due time will strike them. Psalm 18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. Wiclif and Rheims have "perdition." Go To 2 Peter Index. The Day of the Lord. . 2:3 They will make merchandise of you - Only use you to gain by you, as merchants do their wares. 4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And through couetousnesse shall they with fained words, make marchandise of you, whose iudgement now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbreth not.- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scanand in {their} greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.- New American Standard Version (1995)And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.- American Standard Version (1901)And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.- Basic English BibleAnd through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.- Darby BibleAnd through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy a prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: 3 a Knowing this first, that there shall come in the b last days scoffers, walking after their own c lusts , 2 Peter 2:2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned (NASB: Lockman). 2 Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. our commercial phrase, "to travel in" such and such goods.) King James Version (KJV). 2 Peter Greeting. Πλεονεξίᾳ, covetousness, avarice) 2 Peter 2:14.— πλαστοῖς, feigned) as dealers do.— ὑμᾶς ἐμπορεύσονται) The writers of the Septuagint put ἐμπορεύεσθαι with an accusative for the Hebrew סחר, Genesis 34:21; Proverbs 3:14; Ezekiel 27:21, ed. 1-2 My dear friends, this is now the second time I’ve written to you, both letters reminders to hold your minds in a state of undistracted attention. We find no good reason to reject Peter’s authorship of 2 Peter. 2 Peter 1:2-3 New International Version (NIV). 2 Peter 2:3. The Day of the Lord. 2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles. 3. Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural. 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