2 Peter (KJV)
3 chapters · 61 verses. Choose a chapter to read it in the King James Version.
About the Book of 2 Peter
Second Peter warns against false teachers and moral corruption while urging growth in the knowledge of Christ. It reaffirms the certainty of the Lord's return and the trustworthiness of God's promises.
- Genre
- Epistle
- Author
- Attributed to the apostle Peter (authorship is questioned by some)
- First audience
- Believers threatened by false teachers
How to read it: Read with the occasion in mind — a warning against false teaching; weigh its call to spiritual growth and its sober view of judgment together.
It opens: “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:” (2 Peter 1:1)
Chapters
Key verses in 2 Peter
The verses of 2 Peter that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.