New Testament · General Letters · World English Bible
2 Peter
"He is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance."
— 2 Peter 3:9 
The Reading LensEvery verse pulled to the top of a book is chosen by three questions: Where is God’s heart here? Who is He protecting? Who is being saved by the action? It marks the place where those answers come into clearest focus — a “look at this, in this book.”
About the Letter
A short letter written against teachers already inside the community, and the most disputed book in the New Testament as to authorship — its reception in the early church was slower and more contested than any other.
Chapter 2 overlaps closely with Jude, to the point that one almost certainly depends on the other. Which way round is an open question.
The specific pressure is the delay — people asking where the promised coming is, since everything continues as it always has. The answer given is about God’s reckoning of time, and about the delay being patience rather than indifference.
3 Chapters
Make Every Effort
The chain of qualities added to faith, each leading to the next. Then the basis: not cleverly devised fables — we were with him on the holy mountain — and the note that no prophecy came by human will.
False Teachers
A sustained denunciation of teachers who exploit with fabricated words, with examples from the flood, from Sodom, and from Balaam and his donkey. The hardest chapter in the letter, and the one shared with Jude.
Where Is the Promise?
The scoffers and their question. One day is as a thousand years; the delay is patience. Then the closing note that Paul’s letters contain things hard to understand, which some twist to their own destruction.