2 Peter 3:17 — Meaning and Application

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“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.”

2 Peter 3:17

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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.

But grow in grace, and {in} the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him {be} glory both now and for ever. Amen.

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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: {standing: Gr. consisting}"

2 Peter 3:6

"Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:"

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