2 Peter

🗺️ Overview

2 Peter is a final letter from the apostle Peter, urging believers to grow in grace and knowledge, remain faithful to the truth, and beware of false teachers. With urgency and clarity, Peter reminds readers of the certainty of Christ’s return and the need for holy living in light of coming judgment.

💡 2 Peter calls believers to grow in maturity, stay anchored in Scripture, and resist the influence of false teaching. It challenges us to live holy lives in anticipation of Christ’s return and to trust in God’s timing and faithfulness.

• Peter’s Final Letter

  2 Peter was likely written shortly before Peter’s martyrdom under Nero. It reads as a final testament, urging faithfulness in an age of deception.

  📚 Source: ESV Study Bible

• Authorship and Style

  2 Peter has a distinct style from 1 Peter, leading some scholars to question authorship. Early church tradition, however, affirms Peter’s authorship.

  📚 Source: IVP Bible Background Commentary

• The “Day of the Lord”

  A major theme of chapter 3, this phrase refers to God’s future judgment and the renewal of creation. Peter calls believers to live in readiness.

  📚 Source: The Bible Project

📊 Book at a Glance

📝 Author

Peter the Apostle

📅 Date

c. AD 64–68

📖 Chapters

3

🏷️ Genre

Epistle

📍 Location

Written near the end of Peter’s life to warn believers about false teachers and encourage perseverance

🧵 Main Themes

Spiritual growth and maturity, Warning against false teachers, The authority of Scripture and apostolic witness, The certainty of Christ’s return, Living in holiness and expectation

📚 Outline

• Call to Spiritual Growth (Ch. 1)
• Warning Against False Teachers (Ch. 2)
• Hope in the Lord’s Return (Ch. 3)

📖 Key Stories

🧠 Key Verses

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence. — 2 Peter 1:3

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. — 2 Peter 1:4

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. — 2 Peter 1:5–7

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. — 2 Peter 1:10

For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. — 2 Peter 1:21

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. — 2 Peter 3:9

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. — 2 Peter 3:10

But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. — 2 Peter 3:13

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. — 2 Peter 3:18

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