Bible Book of 2 Peter | Growing in Grace

A warning against false teachers and a call to grow in the knowledge of Christ as we await His return. 2 Peter chapters with summary and commentary.

Genre: Epistle. Theme: Growing in Grace

Author: Peter
Date: AD 65-68
Read Time: 15 mins
Purpose: Warn against false teachers.
Key Verse: 2 Pet 3:18 - But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Christ: The Morning Star.
Audience: Believers facing the threat of internal false teachers
Focus: Growth in grace.
Knowledge Focus: Written to combat 'scoffers' by emphasizing growing in true, apostolic knowledge.
Apostolic Witness: Peter affirms he was an 'eyewitness' of Christ's majesty on the Mount of Transfiguration.

2 Peter is Peter's final warning against those who would deny the Second Coming and live in moral license.

Affirms the inspiration of Scripture as a 'more sure word of prophecy' than human experience.

Jesus is the Morning Star (1:19) who will return to judge the world and bring new heavens.

2 Peter 1 - Greeting

Peter, to those of faith. God has given us great promises. So supplement faith with virtue and love. We were eyewitnesses of Christ.

False teachers will arise. If God did not spare angels then he knows how to punish the unrighteous. They are slaves of corruption.

Scoffers will say, "Where is his return?" The Lord is not slow, but patient. Untaught people twist the Scriptures. Grow in Christ.