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 shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
• Heb 5:11About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
• Jas 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
• 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• Phil 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
• Jer 23:36You shall mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.
• Rom 8:1–39There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• Matt 22:29But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
• 2 Tim 3:5–7holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
• Ps 56:5All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
• Matt 15:3He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
• 2 Pet 2:1But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
• 1 Pet 2:8and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
• 1 Cor 15:1–58Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
• 1 Th 4:1–5Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• 2 Kgs 1:1–18Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
• Exod 23:2“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
• Gen 49:4Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
• 1 Kgs 10:1When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
• 1 Pet 1:1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
• Deut 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
• Exod 23:6“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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