2 Peter / Question
Peter says Paul wrote according to the wisdom given to him, and that in his letters some things are “hard to understand.” He adds that the ignorant and unstable “twist” these things, “as they do the other Scriptures,” to their own destruction. The warning is about distortion of apostolic teaching. See 2 Peter 3:15–16.
Because the readers are expecting God’s promised future, the writer urges them to live carefully now, aiming to be found at peace and morally clean when the Lord evaluates them (2 Peter 3:14). He then reframes the Lord’s delay as purposeful patience, meant to give time, and he links this message with what Paul wrote to the same audience. This unit sits in the closing stretch of 2 Peter’s argument about the Lord’s coming and the meaning of the apparent delay.
These verses tie future hope (“these things” the readers are waiting for) to present moral seriousness. The writer assumes a coming evaluation and frames the present as the time to be “found” in a certain condition: peace, and a life described as “without blemish and blameless” (explicit textual claims).
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with 2 Peter 3:15-16, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they do also to the other scriptures, to their own destruction.