2 Peter 3:15-17
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
15 And be regarding the patience of our Lord to be salvation, just as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according-to[a] the wisdom having been given to him, 16 as also he writes in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these things, in which letters are some things hard-to-understand which the untaught and unstable twist[b]— as also the other[c] Scriptures— to their own destruction.
Beloved, Be Guarding Yourselves And Growing In Christ
17 You therefore, beloved, knowing-this-beforehand, be guarding yourselves in order that you may not fall-from your own steadfastness, having been carried-away-by[d] the error of the lawless ones.
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- 2 Peter 3:15 Or, based on, by way of.
- 2 Peter 3:16 Or, distort, wrench. For example, they changed grace into sensuality, Jude 4.
- 2 Peter 3:16 Or, the rest-of-the Scriptures.That is, the other books in the category of ‘Scriptures.’
- 2 Peter 3:17 Or, carried-along-with. In other words, led astray by.
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