Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Peter 3:2

"that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:" — 2 Peter 3:2 (ASV)

That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

Peter believed in the inspiration of the very "words" of Scripture; he was not one of those precious "advanced thinkers" who would, if they could, tear the very soul out of the Book, and leave us nothing at all; but he wrote, That ye may be mindful of the words — the very words — which were spoken before by the holy prophets.

"Oh!" says one, "but words do not signify; it is the inward sense that is really important." Exactly so; that is just what the fool said about egg-shells. He said that they did not signify; it was only the inward life-germ of the chick within that was important; so he broke all the shells, and thereby destroyed the life that was within.

We contend for every word of the Bible, and believe in the verbal and plenary inspiration of Holy Scripture, believing indeed that there can be no other inspiration but that. If the words could be taken from us, the sense itself would be gone.