2 Peter

No. 632 2 Peter 1:12-21
Peter, knowing his death is near, writes to fix the truth in his readers' minds while he still can. He insists that the faith he handed them was not invented: we did not follow cleverly devised myths, he says,...
No. 722 2 Peter 3:8-13
Second Peter is written against scoffers who have noticed that the promised return of Christ has not come, and who ask, where is this coming he talked about? Everything goes on as it always has. Peter answers...
No. 1491 2 Peter 2:1-16
Peter warns that false teachers will arise, secretly bringing in destructive errors, exploiting people with deceptive words out of greed, following, he says, the way of Balaam, who loved the wages of...
No. 1596 2 Peter 2:17-22
Peter continues his warning against false teachers. They are, he says, wells without water and clouds driven by a storm, promising much and giving nothing. With great swelling words of emptiness they entice...
No. 1999 2 Peter 3:1-7
Peter warns of scoffers who will come in the last days, following their own desires and mocking the promise of Christ's return. Where is the promise of his coming? they will say. For ever since the fathers...
No. 2466 2 Peter 3:14-18
Peter is closing his letter with a call to be found at peace, spotless and blameless, and he adds a striking way to read God's slowness: regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. He mentions that his...
No. 2595 2 Peter 1:1-11
Peter opens his second letter with an astonishing claim: God's own power has already granted us everything we need for life and godliness, through knowing the One who called us. On that basis he issues a call...