2 Peter 3:16

Paul's letters contain some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own ruin. It matters because it ranks Paul's letters with Scripture and warns against twisting God's word.

Cross-references · 24

• Matt 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
• Heb 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
• Jas 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
• 2 Pet 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
• Phil 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
• Jer 23:36But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
• Rom 8:1–39Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• Matt 22:29Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
• 2 Tim 3:5–7having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
• Ps 56:5All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
• Matt 15:3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
• 2 Pet 2:1Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
• 1 Pet 2:8and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
• 1 Cor 15:1–58Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm.
• 1 Th 4:1–5Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• 2 Kgs 1:1–18After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.
• Exod 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
• Gen 49:4Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
• 1 Kgs 10:1Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
• 1 Pet 1:1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen
• Deut 16:19Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
• Exod 23:6You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

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