彼得后书 3:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

所以，親愛的，你們既然預先知道了，就要謹慎，免得受惡人的錯謬引導，就從自己堅固的地步上墜落。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
亲 爱 的 弟 兄 阿 ， 你 们 既 然 预 先 知 道 这 事 ， 就 当 防 备 ， 恐 怕 被 恶 人 的 错 谬 诱 惑 ， 就 从 自 己 坚 固 的 地 步 上 坠 落 。

Contextual Overview

¹¹ In that way everything will be destroyed. So what kind of people should you be? You should live holy lives and serve God, ¹² as you wait for and look forward to the coming of the day of God. When that day comes, the skies will be destroyed with fire, and everything in them will melt with heat. ¹³ But God made a promise to us, and we are waiting for a new heaven and a new earth where goodness lives. ¹⁴ Dear friends, since you are waiting for this to happen, do your best to be without sin and without fault. Try to be at peace with God. ¹⁵ Remember that we are saved because our Lord is patient. Our dear brother Paul told you the same thing when he wrote to you with the wisdom that God gave him. ¹⁶ He writes about this in all his letters. Some things in Paul's letters are hard to understand, and people who are ignorant and weak in faith explain these things falsely. They also falsely explain the other Scriptures, but they are destroying themselves by doing this. ¹⁷ Dear friends, since you already know about this, be careful. Do not let those evil people lead you away by the wrong they do. Be careful so you will not fall from your strong faith. ¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory be to him now and forever! Amen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

seeing: 2 Peter 1:12, Proverbs 1:17, Matthew 24:24, Matthew 24:25, Mark 13:23, John 16:4

beware: Matthew 7:15, Matthew 16:6, Matthew 16:11, Philippians 3:2, Colossians 2:8, 2 Timothy 4:15

being: 2 Peter 2:18-20, Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22, Romans 16:18, 2 Corinthians 11:3, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15

from: 2 Peter 1:10, 2 Peter 1:11, 2 Peter 2:18-22, Acts 2:42, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Ephesians 4:14, Colossians 2:5, Hebrews 3:14, 1 Peter 5:9

Reciprocal: Proverbs 16:29 - General Luke 7:24 - A reed Luke 22:32 - strengthen Acts 11:23 - and exhorted Acts 13:43 - persuaded Romans 1:11 - to the Galatians 5:4 - ye Philippians 4:1 - so Colossians 2:7 - stablished 1 Thessalonians 3:8 - if 2 Timothy 3:6 - led James 5:19 - err

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will die.'"

Genesis 3:5
God knows that if you eat the fruit from that tree, you will learn about good and evil and you will be like God!"

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:7
Then, it was as if their eyes were opened. They realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made something to cover themselves.

Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:11
God asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?"

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things] before,.... 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seeing that ye know these things before - Being aware of this danger, and knowing that such results may follow. People should read the Bible with the feeling that it is possible that they may fall into error, and be deceived at last. This apprehension will do much to make them diligent, and candid, and prayerful, in studying the Word of God.

With the error of the wicked - Wicked men. Such as he had referred to in 2 Peter 2:0, who became public teachers of religion.

Fall from your own steadfastness - Your firm adherence to the truth. The particular danger here referred to is not that of falling from grace, or from true religion, but from the firm and settled principles of religious truth into error.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 17. Seeing ye know - before — Seeing that by prophets and apostles you have been thus forewarned, beware, φυλασσεσθε, keep watch, be on your guard; cleave to God and the word of his grace, lest ye be led away from the truth delivered by the prophets and apostles, by the error of the wicked, αθεσμων, of the lawless- those who wrest the Scriptures to make them countenance their lusts, exorbitant exactions, and lawless practices.

Fall from your own steadfastness. — From that faith in Christ which has put you in possession of that grace which establishes the heart.