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.