Outline
The letter is usually outlined as follows:
- Address (2 Peter 1:1-2)
- Exhortation to Christian Virtue (2 Peter 1:3-21)
- Condemnation of the False Teachers (2 Peter 2:1-22)
- The Delay of the Second Coming (2 Peter 3:1-16)
- Final Exhortation and Doxology (2 Peter 3:17-18)
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