2 Peter 3:5

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 2 Peter 3:5 tn The Greek is difficult at this point. An alternative is “Even though they maintain this, it escapes them that…” Literally the idea seems to be: “For this escapes these [men] who wish [it to be so].”
2. 2 Peter 3:5 tn The word order in Greek places “the word of God” at the end of the sentence. See discussion in the note on “these things” in v. 6.
3. 2 Peter 3:5 tn Or “land,” “the earth.”