2 Peter 3 Flashcards
Why has Peter written both letters?
As reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking (2 Peter 3:1)
To whom is this now Peter’s second letter?
You (dear friends) (2 Peter 3:1)
What has Peter written as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking?
Both of his letters (2 Peter 3:1)
What are reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking?
Both of Peter’s letters (2 Peter 3:1)
Through whom was the command given by our Lord and Savior?
Your apostles (2 Peter 3:2)
What command does Peter want you to recall?
The command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles (2 Peter 3:2)
What does Peter want you to recall?
The words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles (2 Peter 3:2)
By whom were words spoken in the past?
The holy prophets (2 Peter 3:2)
By whom was the command given through your apostles?
Our Lord and Savior (2 Peter 3:2)
What was given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles?
A command (2 Peter 3:2)
When were words spoken by the holy prophets?
In the past (2 Peter 3:2)
What will scoffers do in the last days?
Come, scoffing and following their own evil desires (2 Peter 3:3)
What must you understand above all?
That in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires (2 Peter 3:3)
Who will come in the last days?
Scoffers (2 Peter 3:3)
Who will follow their own evil desires?
Scoffers (2 Peter 3:3)
What desires will scoffers follow in the last days?
Their own evil desires (2 Peter 3:3)
What will scoffers follow?
Their own evil desires (2 Peter 3:3)
When will scoffers come?
In the last days (2 Peter 3:3)
Who will come in the last days, scoffing and following their own evil desires?
Scoffers (2 Peter 3:3)
What will scoffers follow in the last days?
Their own evil desires (2 Peter 3:3)
How will scoffers come in the last days?
Scoffing and following their own evil desires (2 Peter 3:3)
Since when has everything gone on as it has since the beginning of creation?
Ever since our ancestors died (2 Peter 3:4)
What will scoffers say?
“Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation” (2 Peter 3:4)
How does everything go on ever since our ancestors died?
As it has since the beginning of creation (2 Peter 3:4)
By whose word did the heavens come into being long ago?
God’s (2 Peter 3:5)
When did the heavens come into being by God’s word?
Long ago (2 Peter 3:5)
What do scoffers deliberately forget?
That long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water (2 Peter 3:5)
What was formed out of water and by water?
The earth (2 Peter 3:5)
Out of what was the earth formed?
Water (2 Peter 3:5)
By what did the heavens come into being long ago?
God’s word (2 Peter 3:5)
What came into being long ago by God’s word?
The heavens (2 Peter 3:5)
By what was the earth formed?
Water (2 Peter 3:5)
What was deluged and destroyed by these waters?
The world of that time (2 Peter 3:6)
By what was the world of that time deluged and destroyed?
These waters (2 Peter 3:6)
For what are the present heavens and earth being kept?
The day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly (2 Peter 3:7)
By what are the present heavens and earth reserved for fire?
By the same word (OR By God’s word) (2 Peter 3:7)
What are reserved for fire?
The present heavens and earth (2 Peter 3:7)
For what are the present heavens and earth reserved?
Fire (2 Peter 3:7)
What are being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly?
The present heavens and earth (2 Peter 3:7)
What are reserved for fire by the same word?
The present heavens and earth (2 Peter 3:7)
Like what are a thousand years with the Lord?
A day (2 Peter 3:8)
With whom are a thousand years like a day?
The Lord (2 Peter 3:8)
Like what is a day with the Lord?
A thousand years (2 Peter 3:8)
What is like a thousand years with the Lord?
A day (2 Peter 3:8)
What are like a day with the Lord?
A thousand years (2 Peter 3:8)
What one thing should you not forget?
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day (2 Peter 3:8)
With whom is a day like a thousand years?
The Lord (2 Peter 3:8)
Who is not wanting anyone to perish?
The Lord (2 Peter 3:9)
Who is not slow in keeping his promise?
The Lord (2 Peter 3:9)
How is the Lord not slow in keeping his promise?
As some understand slowness (2 Peter 3:9)
Whom does the Lord want to come to repentance?
Everyone (2 Peter 3:9)
What is the Lord not wanting?
Anyone to perish (2 Peter 3:9)
Who wants everyone to come to repentance?
The Lord (2 Peter 3:9)
Whom does the Lord not want to perish?
Anyone (2 Peter 3:9)
Who is patient with you?
The Lord (2 Peter 3:9)
In what is the Lord not slow?
Keeping his promise (2 Peter 3:9)
With what will the heavens disappear?
A roar (2 Peter 3:10)
Like what will the day of the Lord come?
A thief (2 Peter 3:10)
What will be laid bare?
The earth and everything done in it (2 Peter 3:10)
What will be destroyed by fire?
The elements (2 Peter 3:10)
What will come like a thief?
The day of the Lord (2 Peter 3:10)
By what will the elements be destroyed?
Fire (2 Peter 3:10)
How will the heavens disappear?
With a roar (2 Peter 3:10)
What will disappear with a roar?
The heavens (2 Peter 3:10)
Like whom will the day of the Lord come?
A thief (2 Peter 3:10)
What kind of people ought you to be since everything will be destroyed in this way?
You ought to live holy and godly lives (2 Peter 3:11)
Why ought you to live holy and godly lives?
Since everything will be destroyed in this way (2 Peter 3:11)
What ought you to live?
Holy and godly lives (2 Peter 3:11)
Who ought to live holy and godly lives?
Simon Peter’s dear friends (OR you) (2 Peter 3:11)
What will melt in the heat?
The elements (2 Peter 3:12)
In what will the elements melt?
The heat (2 Peter 3:12)
What will the day of God bring about?
The destruction of the heavens by fire (2 Peter 3:12)
What will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire?
The day of God (2 Peter 3:12)
What do you speed?
The day of God’s coming (2 Peter 3:12)
To what are we looking forward in keeping with his promise?
A new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells (2 Peter 3:13)
What is where righteousness dwells?
A new heaven and a new earth (2 Peter 3:13)
With whom should you make every effort to be at peace?
The Lord (2 Peter 3:14)
What should you do since you are looking forward to this?
Make every effort to be found spotless, blameless, and at peace with him (2 Peter 3:14)
Why should you make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with the Lord?
Since you are looking forward to this (a new heaven and a new earth) (2 Peter 3:14)
At what should you make every effort to be since you are looking forward to this?
Peace (2 Peter 3:14)
With what did our dear brother Paul also write you?
The wisdom that God gave him (2 Peter 3:15)
How should you bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation?
Just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him (2 Peter 3:15)
With what did Paul also write you?
With the wisdom that God gave him (2 Peter 3:15)
Who also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him?
Our dear brother Paul (2 Peter 3:15)
What means salvation?
Our Lord’s patience (2 Peter 3:15)
What should you bear in mind?
That our Lord’s patience means salvation (2 Peter 3:15)
Who gave Paul wisdom?
God (2 Peter 3:15)
What did God give our dear brother Paul?
Wisdom (2 Peter 3:15)
What does our Lord’s patience mean?
Salvation (2 Peter 3:15)
Whose patience means salvation?
Our Lord’s (2 Peter 3:15)
Whom did God give wisdom?
Our dear brother Paul (2 Peter 3:15)
In what does Paul write the same way?
All his letters (2 Peter 3:16)
Who distort the other Scriptures to their own destruction?
Ignorant and unstable people (2 Peter 3:16)
What contain some things that are hard to understand?
Paul’s letters (2 Peter 3:16)
To what do ignorant and unstable people distort the other Scriptures?
Their own destruction (2 Peter 3:16)
Who distort some things Paul’s letters contain?
Ignorant and unstable people (2 Peter 3:16)
Who writes the same way in all his letters?
Paul (2 Peter 3:16)
What are hard to understand?
Some things that Paul’s letters contain (2 Peter 3:16)
What do Paul’s letters contain?
Some things that are hard to understand (2 Peter 3:16)
Who distort some things that are hard to understand as they do the other Scriptures?
Ignorant and unstable people (2 Peter 3:16)
What do ignorant and unstable people distort to their own destruction?
Some things that are hard to understand in Paul’s letters and the other Scriptures (2 Peter 3:16)
Who speaks in all his letters of these matters?
Paul (2 Peter 3:16)
By what may you not be carried away?
The error of the lawless (2 Peter 3:17)
Why be on your guard?
So that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position (2 Peter 3:17)
From what may you not fall?
Your secure position (2 Peter 3:17)
By what may you not be carried away if you are on your guard?
The error of the lawless (2 Peter 3:17)
Why should you be on your guard since you have been forewarned?
So that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position (2 Peter 3:17)
What is your position?
Secure (2 Peter 3:17)
Who may not fall from their secure position?
Simon Peter’s dear friends (OR you) (2 Peter 3:17)
What should you be since you have been forewarned?
On your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position (2 Peter 3:17)
What be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ both now and forever?
Glory (2 Peter 3:18)
In what should you grow?
The grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18)
Who should grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Simon Peter’s dear friends (OR you) (2 Peter 3:18)
Who is our Lord and Savior?
Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18)
To whom be glory both now and forever?
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18)
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 1, why have I written both of them?
As reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 1, what has Peter written?
Both of his letters
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 1, what is this?
Peter’s second letter to you
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 1, what is this now?
My (Peter’s) second letter to you
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 2, what do I want?
You to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 2, what does Peter want?
You to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 2, by whom were words spoken in the past?
The holy prophets
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 2, by whom was the command given?
Our Lord and Savior (through your apostles)
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 2, what do I want you to recall?
The words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 3, who will come in the last days?
Scoffers
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 3, what must you understand?
That in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 3, how will scoffers come?
Scoffing and following their own evil desires
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 4, what has God promised?
This “coming”
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 4, what will scoffers say?
“Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation”
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 4, what goes on as it has since the beginning of creation?
Everything
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 4, what did he promise?
This “coming”
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 4, how does everything go on?
As it has since the beginning of creation
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 5, what was formed out of water and by water?
The earth
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 5, how did the heavens come into being?
By God’s word
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 5, what do they deliberately forget?
That long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 5, what came into being by God’s word?
The heavens
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 6, what was destroyed?
The world of that time
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 6, what was also deluged and destroyed?
The world of that time
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 7, what are reserved for fire?
The present heavens and earth
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 7, for what are the present heavens and earth being kept?
The day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 8, what should you not forget?
This one thing: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 9, what is the Lord wanting?
Everyone to come to repentance
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 9, what does the Lord not want?
Anyone to perish
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 9, what do some understand?
Slowness
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 9, what is the Lord not wanting?
Anyone to perish
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 9, what is the Lord not?
Slow in keeping his promise
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 10, how will the day of the Lord come?
Like a thief
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 10, what will be destroyed by fire?
The elements
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 10, what will the earth and everything done in it be?
Laid bare
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 10, what will disappear?
The heavens
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 10, what will come?
The day of the Lord
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 11, how will everything be destroyed?
In this way
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 11, what ought you to do?
Live holy and godly lives
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 11, what will be destroyed in this way?
Everything
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 12, what will that day bring about?
The destruction of the heavens by fire (and the elements will melt in the heat)
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 12, to what do you look forward?
The day of God
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 13, to what are we looking forward?
A new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 13, what is the new heaven and the new earth?
Where righteousness dwells
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 14, what should you make every effort to be found?
Spotless, blameless and at peace with God
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 14, how should you make every effort to be found?
Spotless, blameless and at peace with him
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 15, what did God give Paul?
Wisdom
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 15, how did Paul also write you?
With the wisdom that God gave him
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 15, what should you bear in mind?
That our Lord’s patience means salvation
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 15, who is our dear brother?
Paul
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 16, what do his letters contain?
Some things that are hard to understand
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 16, what do Paul’s letter contain?
Some things that are hard to understand (which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction)
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 16, how does Paul write?
The same way in all his letters
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 17, on what should you be?
Your guard
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 17, why should you be on your guard?
So that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 17, by what may you not be carried away?
The error of the lawless
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 17, what is secure?
Your position
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 18, in what should you grow?
The grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 18, what be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Glory both now and forever
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 18, what is Jesus Christ?
Our Lord and Savior
According to 2 Peter chapter 3: verse 18, when be glory to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Both now and forever
FTV: By the same word the
By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
(2 Peter 3:7)
FTV: But do not forget this
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. (2 Peter 3:8)
FTV: The Lord is not slow
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
FTV: But the day of the
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. (2 Peter 3:10)
FTV: But in keeping with his
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)
FTV: So then, dear friends, since
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. (2 Peter 3:14)
FTV: But grow in the grace
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen. (2 Peter 3:18)