2 Peter 3:14-16
1599 Geneva Bible
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in [a]peace, without spot and blameless.
15 (A)And suppose that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation, [b]even as our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given unto him wrote to you.
16 As one that in all his Epistles speaketh of these things: [c]among the [d]which, some things are hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do also other Scriptures unto their own destruction.
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- 2 Peter 3:14 That you may try to your profit, how gentle and peaceable he is.
- 2 Peter 3:15 Paul’s Epistles are allowed by the express testimony of Peter.
- 2 Peter 3:16 There be certain of these things obscure and dark, whereof the unlearned take occasion to overthrow some men that stand not fast, wrestling the testimonies of the Scripture to their own destruction. But this is the remedy against such deceit, to labor that we may daily more and more grow up and increase in the knowledge of Christ.
- 2 Peter 3:16 That is to say, among the which things: for he disputeth not here whether Paul’s Epistles be plain or dark, but saith, that amongst those things which Paul hath written of his Epistles, and Peter himself in these two of his own, there are some things which cannot be easily understood, and therefore are of some drawn to their own destruction: and this he saith to make us more attentive and diligent, and not remove us from the reading of holy things, for to what end should they have written vain speculations?
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