¹⁴ [^LTherefore] ·Dear friends [^LBeloved], ·since [or while] you are waiting for this to happen, ·do your best [make every effort; strive] to be [^Lfound] without ·sin [^Lspot] and without ·fault [^Lblemish; ^Cthe characteristics of the false teachers in 2:13]. ·Try [Make every effort; Strive] to be at peace with God. ¹⁵ ·Remember [Consider; Bear in mind] that ·we are saved because our Lord is patient [^Lour Lord’s patience is our salvation; ^Chis delay in coming allows more to be saved]. Our ·dear [^Lbeloved] brother Paul told you the same thing when he wrote to you with the wisdom that God gave him. ¹⁶ He writes about ·this [^Lthese things] in all his letters. Some things in Paul’s letters are hard to understand, and people who are ·ignorant [untaught] and ·weak in faith [unstable] ·explain these things falsely [^Ltwist/distort them]. They also ·falsely explain [^Ltwist; distort] the other Scriptures, ·but they are destroying themselves by doing this [or which will lead to their destruction].