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2 Peter 3 (view passage online)
Scoffers question the promise of the Lord’s coming. God does not delay His promise but shows longsuffering, not wanting anyone to perish. The day of the Lord still comes as a thief in the night.
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Romans 17:1-27 (view passage online)
Paul expresses great sorrow for Israel, noting their adoption, glory, covenants, law, promises, and fathers. Christ comes from them according to the flesh. God sovereignly chooses Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, keeping Israel central to His redemptive plan.
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2 Peter 3:10-13 (view passage online)
God gives the inheritance by promise, not by the law. He adds the law because of transgressions to serve as a tutor until the Seed comes to bring us to Christ. Now that faith has come, all who believe become sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
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2 Peter 3:10-18 (view passage online)
Peter calls believers to live in holy conduct and godliness since God will dissolve all things. Christians must work diligently to live in peace, without spot, and blameless. He commands believers to grow in grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ while avoiding the error of the wicked.
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2 Peter 3:1-13 (view passage online)
Peter reminds believers of words spoken by prophets and apostles regarding scoffers who walk according to their own lusts. These scoffers willfully forget God’s work in creation and the flood. God currently stores up the present heavens and earth for fire and judgment.
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Romans 16:17-27 (view passage online)
Peter warns the church about false teachers, calling them wells without water and clouds carried by a tempest. These teachers promise liberty but live as slaves of corruption, like a sow returning to the mire. He exhorts believers to remember the words of the prophets to protect themselves.
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Romans 3 (view passage online)
Paul teaches that all people sin and none seek after God or live righteously. The law brings the knowledge of sin, but God gives righteousness apart from the law through faith in Jesus Christ. God justifies believers freely by His grace, acting as both just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
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2 Peter 2:12-22 (view passage online)
False teachers despise authority, speak evil of things they do not understand, and have eyes full of adultery. They forsake the right way, much like Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousness. These teachers lure unstable souls away with empty promises.
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Romans 16:1-6 (view passage online)
Peter calls believers to have a genuine love and care for the people around them. Wives can win unbelieving husbands without a word through their godly conduct. Husbands must dwell with their wives with understanding and honor.
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2 Peter 2:1-9 (view passage online)
Peter warns that false teachers will come among believers and secretly bring in destructive heresies. God judges sin, just as He did not spare the angels who sinned, the ancient world, or Sodom. The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and reserve the unjust for judgment.