2 PETER 3:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”
As he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures — Paul's letters address eschatological matters similarly. The hard-to-understand passages (dysnoēta) become occasions for heretical eisegesis by the unstable (asteriktos). The equation of Paul's writings with Scripture affirms their canonical status.
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