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2 Peter 3:15 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; "
2 Peter 3:15
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Nevertheless we, ➔ according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, ➔ being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
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2 Peter 3:1
"This second epistle, beloved, I ➔ now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:"
2 Peter 3:2
"That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:"
2 Peter 3:3
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,"
2 Peter 3:4
"And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
2 Peter 3:5
"For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:"
2 Peter 3:6
"Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:"
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