2 Peter 3:15 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁵ and consider the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation —just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

¹⁵ because I will give you a mouth and wisdom such that all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or withstand.

¹⁰ and delivered him out of all his adversities, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

²⁵ it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men to send to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

⁴ Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance?

¹³ which things we also expound, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, while another builds on it. But let each one be careful how he builds;

⁸ So to one a word of wisdom is given, by the Spirit; to another a word of knowledge, by the same Spirit;

³ how that by revelation He made known to me the ‘secret’ (as I have written briefly already,

¹⁶ precisely for this reason I was shown mercy, that in me, the ‘chief’, Jesus Christ might display all his forbearance, as an example for those who are going to rely on Him into eternal life.

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from the giving God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him.

¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

²⁰ who formerly were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, while the Ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is eight, souls were brought safely through water.

⁹ The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider delay, but rather is patient toward us, not wishing anyone to perish but all to come into repentance.