2 Peter 3:3

Above all, understand this: ¹  In the last days blatant scoffers ²  will come, being propelled by their own evil urges ³ 

biblegateway 2Pe 3:3

First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

biblegateway 2Pe 3:3

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

biblegateway 2Pe 3:3

First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire.

biblegateway 2Pe 3:3

First off, you need to know that in the last days, mockers are going to have a heyday. Reducing everything to the level of their puny feelings,

SABDAweb 2Pe 3:3

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

bibleoremus 2Pe 3:3

First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts

biblegateway 2Pe 3:3

knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

biblegateway 2Pe 3:3

Above all, understand this: ¹  In the last days blatant scoffers ²  will come, being propelled by their own evil urges ³ 

¹ tn Grk “knowing this [to be] foremost.” Τοῦτο πρῶτον (touto prwton) constitute the object and complement of γινώσκοντες (ginwskonte"). The participle is loosely dependent on the infinitive in v. 2 (“[I want you] to recall”), perhaps in a telic sense (thus, “[I want you] to recall…[and especially] to understand this as foremost”). The following statement then would constitute the main predictions with which the author was presently concerned. An alternative is to take it imperativally: “Above all, know this.” In this instance, however, there is little semantic difference (since a telic participle and imperatival participle end up urging an action). Cf. also 2 Pet 1:20.

² tn The Greek reads “scoffers in their scoffing” for “blatant scoffers.” The use of the cognate dative is a Semitism designed to intensify the word it is related to. The idiom is foreign to English. As a Semitism, it is further incidental evidence of the authenticity of the letter (see the note on “Simeon” in 1:1 for other evidence).

³ tn Grk “going according to their own evil urges.”