2 Peter

Second Peter is a farewell testament, written in view of the author's approaching death, determined that the churches remember what they have received. Its everything-needed-for-life-and-godliness opening builds a ladder of virtues from faith up to love. The letter then turns fierce against false teachers who twist freedom into license, and answers the scoffers' taunt, where is the promise of his coming, with patience measured on God's clock: a day is as a thousand years, and the delay is mercy, God not wishing that any should perish. It ends looking for new heavens and a new earth where righteousness dwells.