Yet they do not really understand Paul’s letters. This page was last modified on September 15, 2017, at 7:08 AM. Give us greater insight into those Bible passages that unscrupulous and ignorant men like to distort and twist, through their own pride, ignorance or lack of diligent study. Proud member Only “some” things are difficult to understand, not most of what Paul wrote.

Destruction is the opposite of building. Quotes available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Are these Christians going to perish? Jesus too talks about this kind of situation in Luke 12:47-48. He wrote Galatians, Romans, 1 & 2 Thessalonians and other books before Peter wrote Second Peter. See 2 Peter 3:16 with its adjacent verses in bold below.

Your email address will not be published. We find no good reason to reject Peter’s authorship of 2 Peter. All rights reserved. To get what 2 Peter 3:16 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context  and relative popularity. Peter is talking about all of the scriptures, not just Paul's writing, for he says 'as they do also the other scriptures' by which he must mean all scriptures.

This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. ; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words, The reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative, Properly, through (all over), i.e., around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative case the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period), Of (from or concerning) these (persons or things), The relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that, He (she or it) is; also (with neuter plural) they are, Unfixed, i.e., (figuratively) vacillating, To wrench, i.e., (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert, The (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom), A document, i.e., holy Writ (or its contents or a statement in it), A preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of, i.e., near to; usually with the accusative case, the place, time, occasion, or respect, which is the destination of the relation, i.e., whither or for which it is predicated), Pertaining to self, i.e., one's own; by implication, private or separate, Ruin or loss (physical, spiritual or eternal). Will a saved person perish? The formalization of the canon took place many years later. To begin, Pater and Paul were contemporaries, even though Peter was very reluctant to accept Paul’s claims to be an apostle of Christ. Your email address will not be published.

Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest; Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. In this final letter, just before his death, the aged apostle Peter wrote to all Christians – to all who had obtained a precious faith in God, like his own faith – in and through the righteousness of our God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Keep in mind that we will never understand everything about God; if we did, we would have to be as smart as He is. Let us look at another passage.

in which are some things hard to understand. As also in all [his] epistles From whence it appears, that the Apostle Paul had, by this time, wrote several of his epistles, if not all of them; and they were all written according to the same wisdom, and under the influence of the same spirit, as his epistle to the Hebrews: speaking in them of those things; of the same things, Peter had been speaking of, of the coming of Christ, as that he should appear a second time to them that look for him, and would come as a thief in the night, and that the fashion, scheme, and form of this world should pass away, and that saints should look and wait for his coming, and love it: something of this kind is said in all his epistles; see ( Hebrews 9:28 ) ( 1 Thessalonians 5:2 ) ( 1 Corinthians 7:31 ) ( 1:7 ) ( Titus 2:13 ) ( 2 Timothy 4:8 ) ; and also of mockers, scoffers, seducers, and wicked men that would arise in the last days; see ( 1 Timothy 4:1 ) ( 2 Timothy 3:1 ) .

in which are some things hard to be understood. I don’t believe that I asserted that Paul wrote all of his books by the time of the writing of Second Peter. He started preparing them for the dispensation of the grace of God, when they would be made ministers of a new and better covenant. | Powered by WordPress, Peter says that Paul wrote about the same things in all his “epistles.” “All his epistles” refers to the collection of the Pauline epistles already placed into the canon by Peter’s time. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. Peter virtually accepted the inspiration of Paul’s writings.

If the Bible does not change us, it is because of our unwillingness to listen.

by Grant Richison | Aug 19, 1998 | 2 Peter | 2 comments, “…as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures”. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. None of the apostles were sinless men themselves though. © 2017 QuotesCosmos ● Home ● About ● Privacy ● Terms ● Principles ● Sitemap ● Contact.



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