Purpose of This Letter
3 Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of a reminder, 2 to remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles.
Verse 1
This letter is the second letter Peter wrote as stated in verse 3:1.
My dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to encourage you to do some honest thinking. I don't want you to forget 2 Peter 3 :1 CEV
This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance; 2 Peter 3:1 AMP
This letter was to remind them of what was spoken to them by the apostles.
11 Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:11
Verse 2
Words that were spoken before to them by the way of the prophets, the commandments, the Lord and Savior were what Peter reminded them of by the way of the apostles.
what God's prophets said would happen. You must never forget what the holy prophets taught in the past. And you must remember what the apostles told you our Lord and Savior has commanded us to do. 2 Peter 3:2 CEV
that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles: 2 Peter 2:3 ASV
Keep Yourselves in the Love of God
17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, Jude 1:17
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