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2 Peter 3:14-18 Online Bible Study Guide, Cross References, Outline, and Discussion Questions

Chapter 3:14-18

2 Pe 3:14-18

14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,

15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,

16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness,

18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

 

Key Words

·        Beloved                   3       

·        Things                     3

·        Diligent                    1

·        Scriptures                1

·        Guard                       1

·        Grow                        1

·                                              

 

Titles

Be Diligent to Grow in Grace

Living by Looking

 

Outline

       I.            The future should influence your present   14-16

     II.            Guarding and growing                             17-18

 

Cross References, Questions, Observations

 14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,

Php 3:20

20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Heb 9:28

28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

Jn 14:2-3

2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 

3 "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

Jn 14:18

18 "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 

Jn 14:28

28 " You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 

Ac 1:11

11 They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."

1 Th 4:16-17

16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

Heb 9:28

28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

 

a)    What are “these things” that we look for?

1)     

 

15 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,

Ro 2:4

4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

 

1 Ti 1:16

16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

1 Pe 3:20

20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the  water.

2 Pe 3:9

9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Ro 2:4

4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

1 Ti 1:16

16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

1 Pe 3:20

20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the  water.

2 Pe 3:9

9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Ac 15:25

25 it seemed good to us, having become of one mind, to select men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

1 Ki 3:12

12 behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.

1 Ki 4:29

29 Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.

Pr 2:6

6 For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Ecc 2:26

26 For to a person who is good in His sight He has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, while to the sinner He has given the task of gathering and collecting so that he may give to one who is good in God's sight. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

Da 2:20

20 Daniel said, "Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power belong to Him.

Lk 21:15

15 for I will give you utterance and wisdom which none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute. 

1 Co 2:13

13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 

1 Co 12:8

8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

Jas 1:5

5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

a)    Why does he say that the patience of our Lord is salvation?    

 

16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Heb 5:11

11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Jas 1:6-8

6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,

8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

2 Pe 2:12-14

12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

Dt 16:19

19 " You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Ps 56:5

5 All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.

Mt 15:3

3 And He answered and said to them, "Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Mt 15:6

6 he is not to honor his father or his mother.' And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

Mt 22:29

29 But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God. 

Php 3:18-19

18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,

19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their  appetite, and whose  glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

2 Pe 2:1

1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

Jude 4

4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

2 Th 1:6-8

6 For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire,

8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Jn 3:36

36 "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."

Rv 20:15

15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

1)    Peter knew that the letters that Matthew, Mark, Luke, Paul, John, James, and Jude wrote were Scripture.

 

17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness,

Mt 7:15

15 "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 

Mt 16:6

6 And Jesus said to them, "Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 

Php 3:2

2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision;

Col 2:8

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

Mt 24:24

24 "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. 

2 Co 11:3

3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

2 Pe 2:18-20

18 For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

 

18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

 

Ps 92:12

12 The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Eph 4:15

15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

Col 1:28

28 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.

1 Pe 2:2

2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

Jn 5:23

23 so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. 

Php 2:9-11

9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

2 Ti 4:18

18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly kingdom; to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Jude 25

25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Rv 1:6

6 and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father —  to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Rv 5:11-13

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands,

12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing."

13 And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever."

Key Verse

18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

 

Central Teaching

Knowing the future should motivate me to grow in grace by being diligent and staying on guard.

 

Application - Make Your Own

 

Study on 2 Peter Chapter by Chapter

2 Peter 1:1-9 2 Peter 1:10-15 2 Peter 1:16-21 2 Peter 2:1-11
2 Peter 2:12-16 2 Peter 2:17-22 2 Peter 3:1-6 2 Peter 3:7-13
2 Peter 3:14-18



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