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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Peter 1:12 - 1:12
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Wherefore - as these graces are so necessary to your abundant entrance into Christ’s kingdom (2Pe 1:10, 2Pe 1:11).
I will not be negligent - The oldest manuscripts read, “I will be about always to put you in remembrance” (an accumulated future: I will regard you as always needing to be reminded): compare “I will endeavor,” 2Pe 1:15. “I will be sure always to remind you” [Alford]. “Always”; implying the reason why he writes the second Epistle so soon after the first. He feels there is likely to be more and more need of admonition on account of the increasing corruption (2Pe 2:1, 2Pe 2:2).
in the present truth - the Gospel truth now present with you: formerly promised to Old Testament believers as about to be, now in the New Testament actually present with, and in, believers, so that they are “established” in it as a “present” reality. Its importance renders frequent monitions never superfluous: compare Paul’s similar apology, Rom 15:14, Rom 15:15.