Conclusion

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

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Final Exhortations and Conclusion

14 Therefore, dear friends, because you[a] are waiting for these things, make every effort to be found at peace, spotless and unblemished in him. 15 And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom that was given to him, 16 as he does also in all his[b][c] letters, speaking in them about these things, in which there are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as they also do the rest of the scriptures.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:14 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are waiting for”) which is understood as causal
  2. 2 Peter 3:16 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. 2 Peter 3:16 Some manuscripts do not explicitly state “his”