Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Peter+003   Chapter 3 (ESV) 8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Peter+002   Chapter 2 (ESV) 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Peter+001   2 Peter Introduction Around AD 65 the apostle Peter was imprisoned in Rome by the emperor Nero, and he realized that he would soon be executed. Since he was an eyewitness of the ministry of Jesus, he decided to write another letter to the believers he had written to […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Peter+005   Chapter 5 1 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Peter+004   Chapter 4 1 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 3 For the time that is […]