2 Peter 3:12 New English Translation

¹²while waiting for and hastening^[a] the coming of the day of God?^[b] Because of this day,^[c] the heavens will be burned up and^[d] dissolve, and the celestial bodies^[e] will melt away in a blaze!^[f]

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2 Peter 3:12 tn Or possibly, “striving for,” but the meaning “hasten” for σπουδάζω (spoudazō) 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.
2 Peter 3:12 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).
2 Peter 3:12 tn Grk “on account of which” (a subordinate relative clause in Greek).
2 Peter 3:12 tn Grk “being burned up, will dissolve.”
2 Peter 3:12 tn See note in v. 10 on “celestial bodies.”
2 Peter 3:12 tn Grk “being burned up” (see v. 10).

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