2 Petrus 1:12

Salvation Based on the Word of God

1:12 Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly ¹  of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

2 Petrus 3:12

3:12 while waiting for and hastening ²  the coming of the day of God? ³  Because of this day, ⁴  the heavens will be burned up and ⁵  dissolve, and the celestial bodies ⁶  will melt away in a blaze! ⁷ 

[1:12]  ¹ tn Grk “always.”

[3:12]  ² tn Or possibly, “striving for,” but the meaning “hasten” for σπουδάζω (spoudazw) is normative in Jewish apocalyptic literature (in which the coming of the Messiah/the end is anticipated). Such a hastening is not an arm-twisting of the divine volition, but a response by believers that has been decreed by God.

[3:12]  ³ sn The coming of the day of God. Peter elsewhere describes the coming or parousia as the coming of Christ (cf. 2 Pet 1:16; 3:4). The almost casual exchange between “God” and “Christ” in this little book, and elsewhere in the NT, argues strongly for the deity of Christ (see esp. 1:1).

[3:12]  ⁴ tn Grk “on account of which” (a subordinate relative clause in Greek).

[3:12]  ⁵ tn Grk “being burned up, will dissolve.”

[3:12]  ⁶ tn See note in v. 10 on “celestial bodies.”

[3:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “being burned up” (see v. 10).