2 Peter 2

2 Peter 2:1

Suffer the word of exhortation. Though the epistle in part is argumentative, even the argument is used to point the exhortation. For I have written a letter unto you in a few words. Few with what might be said on such great themes.

2 Peter 2:2

[Our] brother Timothy is set at liberty. How intimately Timothy was associated with Paul all his epistles show. Timothy too joined him at Rome during his imprisonment. (See salutations of the so-called “Prison Epistles”, Philippians 1:1 Colossians 1:1 Philemon 1:1.) This language implies that Timothy had been arrested and afterwards set free. Of this imprisonment, or just where it occurred, there is no other history.

2 Peter 2:3

Salute all them that have the rule over you. Greet for me the elders, and all the saints, at Jerusalem and in Judea. They of Italy salute you. The epistle was, therefore, written from Italy, which harmonizes with Paul’s long imprisonment there.

2 Peter 2:7

On Temptations SUMMARY OF JAMES 1: Rejoicing in Trial. Seeking Wisdom. Stability Urged. The Source of Temptation. The Fountain of All Blessings. Pure and Undefiled Religion. James. See Introduction concerning the writer. He is called by Paul (Galatians 1:19) and by Josephus the brother of Jesus. A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. It seems probable from the title assumed that James was not an apostle. With only a few exceptions the Epistles begin with a reference to the apostleship of the writer. To the twelve tribes. The Jews are often so designated. See Exodus 24:4 28:21 39:14 Ezekiel 47:13 Matthew 19:28 Lu 22:30 Acts 26:7 Revelation 21:12. Which are scattered abroad. Rather “of the Dispersion”, a term applied to Jews outside of Judea.

2 Peter 2:8

Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. Instead of murmuring over trials and temptations, rejoice in them.

2 Peter 2:9

The trying of your faith by means of persecution and temptation worketh patience, rather, enduring fortitude. We are strengthened by trials overcome.

2 Peter 2:10

Let patience. Let endurance not be merely passive, but have [her] perfect work; work out its complete results, that nothing may be wanting in your lives.

2 Peter 2:11

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. This may be one of the wants. If so, go to God for it. That giveth to all [men] liberally. His people will hear, and in answer to their requests he giveth liberally, and upbraideth not. Never upbraideth on account of their requests as men so often do.

2 Peter 2:12

Let him ask in faith. This is an essential condition to prevailing prayer. See Matthew 21:21 Mr 11:23. He that wavereth. Is undecided, of two minds. Is like a wave of the sea. Driven hither and thither.

2 Peter 2:14

A double minded man. A man of no fixed, decided purpose.

2 Peter 2:15

Let the brother of low degree. In the humble walks of life. Rejoice in that he is exalted. To be a child of God, a brother of Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:16

But the rich, in that he is made low. The one should rejoice in exaltation; the other in humiliation. He is taught that his riches have no power to save, and that his life is as uncertain as that of the grass of the field.

2 Peter 2:17

For the sun . . . withereth the grass. When the fierce sun of summer arises the grass in Palestine dies. Thus shall the glory of the rich man fade.

2 Peter 2:18

Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation. He that endures and continues faithful shall have the crown.

2 Peter 2:19

Let no man say . . . I am tempted by God. Some men when they fall try to throw the blame on God, as if God had tempted them. It is impossible that God be tempted of sin, nor does he ever tempt men to sin.

2 Peter 2:20

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. When he suffers his own lusts to lead and entice him. There can be no temptation unless something within us causes a sinful desire.

2 Peter 2:21

When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. The course of sin is described as that of a birth. The sinful desire is the conception; the sinful deed, the birth; moral and eternal death, the final result.

2 Peter 2:22

Do not err. Either about the source of sin or of all good gifts.