2 Peter 3:14-16
New American Standard Bible
14 (A)Therefore, (B)beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be (C)found (D)spotless and blameless by Him, at peace, 15 and regard the (E)patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also (F)our beloved brother Paul, (G)according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of (H)these things, (I)in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and (J)unstable distort, as they do also (K)the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
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2 Peter 3:14-16
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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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- 2 Peter 3:14 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are waiting for”) which is understood as causal
- 2 Peter 3:16 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- 2 Peter 3:16 Some manuscripts do not explicitly state “his”
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