2 Peter 3:16
He does so in all his letters when he speaks of these things. Some things in them are hard to grasp, and people who are untaught and unsteady bend them out of shape, as they bend the other Scriptures, and so bring about their own destruction.
Treated in 6 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Prefatory Address to King Francis cites 2 Pet. 3:16
…which now befall us. There were then unlearned and unstable men who, as Peter tells us (2 Pet. 3:16), wrested the inspired writings of Paul to their own destruction. There were despisers of…
- Real Questions – Book 1 ·
Isn’t the Bible Full of Contradictions? cites 2 Peter 3:16
…Even Peter said about Paul’s letters, “Some parts of his letters are hard to understand” (2 Peter 3:16). But “I can’t solve this yet” is different from “this can’t be solved.” Over the…
- The Key Teachings of R. A. Torrey ·
The Scripture Cannot Be Broken cites 2 PETER 3:16
…and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 PETER 3:16 His second point was that a difficulty does not disprove a doctrine. Every great…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
V. It is no sign that religious affections are truly holy and spiritual, or that they are not, that they come with texts of Scripture, remarkably brought to the mind cites 2 Pet. 3:16
…heretical teachers, can and do pervert the Scripture, to their own and others' damnation, 2 Pet. 3:16. We see they have the free use of Scripture, in every part of it: there is no text so…
- A Body of Divinity ·
A Preliminary Discourse to Catechising cites 2 Pet 3:16
…are ungrounded. See how the apostle joins these two together, ‘unlearned and unstable.’ 2 Pet 3:16. Such as are unlearned in the main points of divinity are unstable. As the body cannot be…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Scriptures cites 2 Pet 3:16
…poison this pure crystal fountain with their corrupt glosses, and who wrest Scripture. 2 Pet 3:16. The Greek word is, they set it upon the rack; they give wrong interpretations of it, not…