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2 Peter 3:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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Quick Meaning
This verse draws the new-creation conclusion toward diligent peace, spotlessness, and blamelessness before God.
Read It With
- 2 Peter 3:14–16
Read 2 Peter 3:14 with 3:14–16. This verse draws the new-creation conclusion toward diligent peace, spotlessness, and blamelessness before God. The complete unit establishes this movement: New-creation hope calls the beloved community to diligent peace and integrity, to count delay as salvation, and to read Paul's difficult letters without the destructive distortion practiced by unstable teachers.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The letter turns cosmic expectation into peaceable diligence and models interpretive humility by admitting that authoritative writings contain difficult material that can be twisted. Within that movement, this verse draws the new-creation conclusion toward diligent peace, spotlessness, and blamelessness before God.
What Remains True
Future hope should form peaceable integrity in the present.
How It Can Shape Life
- Pursue peace with truth, safety, and repair rather than silence or forced reconciliation.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 2 Peter 3:14–16 — Peaceful Diligence and Careful Reading Answer DelaySources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Spot-and-blemish imagery is moral and communal here, not a judgment on bodies, disability, ethnicity, class, or trauma.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 2 Peter 3:14–16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, repeated terms, and the base text used for original-language discussion.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file 2Pet.txt, 3:14–16
Open the 2 Peter Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — 2 Peter with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level Greek, syntax, KJV-era wording, textual variants, and interpretive alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Peter PDF, 3:14–16 translation and attached translator, study, and textual notes
Open the official NET 2 Peter PDF ↗