2 Peter 3:14-16
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14 So, beloved, since you are expecting these things, be eager to be found by Him [at His coming] without spot or blemish and at peace [in serene confidence, [a]free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts].
15 And consider that the long-suffering of our Lord [[b]His slowness in avenging wrongs and judging the world] is salvation ([c]that which is conducive to the soul’s safety), even as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the spiritual insight given him,
16 Speaking of this as he does in all of his letters. There are some things in those [epistles of Paul] that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist and misconstrue to their own [d]utter destruction, just as [they distort and misinterpret] the rest of the Scriptures.
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- 2 Peter 3:14 Webster’s New International Dictionary offers this as a definition of “peace.”
- 2 Peter 3:15 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- 2 Peter 3:15 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
- 2 Peter 3:16 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
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