2 Peter 3:14-18

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Conclusion

¹⁴Therefore, dear friends, while you wait for these things, make every effort to be found at peace with Him without spot or blemish.^(A) ¹⁵Also, regard the patience of our Lord as an opportunity for salvation, just as our dear brother Paul has written to you according to the wisdom given to him.^(B) ¹⁶He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction,^(C) as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

¹⁷Therefore, dear friends, since you know this in advance, be on your guard,^(D) so that you are not led away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own stability. ¹⁸But grow in the grace and knowledge^(E) of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.^[a]^(F) Amen.^[b]