2 Pietro 3:17

17 Voi adunque, diletti, sapendo queste cose innanzi, guardatevi che, trasportati insieme per l’errore degli scellerati, non iscadiate dalla propria fermezza.

2 Pietro 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Peter 3:17

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things] before,
&c.] As that there will be such mockers and scoffers in the last days, and such unlearned and unstable men that will deprave the Scriptures, and wrest them in such a miserable manner:

beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked;
from the simplicity of the Gospel, along with such wicked men, that wax worse and worse, deceivers and being deceived, by giving into any of their errors which respect the grace of God, or the person and offices of Christ, or particularly his second coming; be upon the watch and guard against them, having previous notice of them, for they lie in wait to deceive: lest ye

fall from your own steadfastness;
which was proper to them, and which, by the grace of God, they had, and retained, both in the faith of Christ and doctrine of the Gospel; for though the saints can never finally and totally fall into sin, or from the truth, yet they may fall from their steadfastness, both as to the exercise of the grace of faith, and as to their profession of the doctrine of faith; and to be fluctuating, hesitating, and doubting in either respect, must be very uncomfortable and dishonourable.

2 Pietro 3:17 In-Context

15 E reputate per salute la pazienza del Signor nostro; siccome ancora il nostro caro fratello Paolo, secondo la sapienza che gli è stata data, vi ha scritto.

16 Come ancora egli fa in tutte le sue epistole, parlando in esse di questi punti, nei quali vi sono alcune cose malagevoli ad intendere, le quali gli uomini male ammaestrati ed instabili torcono, come ancora le altre scritture, alla lor propria perdizione.

17 Voi adunque, diletti, sapendo queste cose innanzi, guardatevi che, trasportati insieme per l’errore degli scellerati, non iscadiate dalla propria fermezza.

18 Anzi crescete nella grazia, e conoscenza del Signore e Salvator nostro Gesù Cristo. A lui sia la gloria, ed ora, ed in sempiterno. Amen.