...given unto him, wrote unto you, as also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things: in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable pervert, in like manner as they do the rest of the Scriptures also, unto their own destruction. Ye...

...understood, which they who are unlearned and unstable [though not the honest and the wise toward God,] wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. Let people, therefore, beware how they tarnish the justice and glory of his character with whom we...

...Peter's words are — "As also in all his (Paul's) epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the...also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." (Douay Vers.) Here, say the advocates of Romanism, is an end of the controversy ; the point is decided...

...admonished by the Scripture itself, where St. Peter says, that in the Epistles of St. Paul there " are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned...as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own perdition." (2 Peter iii. 17.) Let every reader of the sacred writings, reffect on the words of Isaias...

...also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in .which are certain things hard to he understood, .which the unlearned and unstable wrest,...the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."* This passage has been strangely urged as a reason for withholding the Scriptures as dangerous: whereas...

...concerning St. Paul's Epistles, viz. " In which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the...Scriptures, to their own destruction," 2 Pet. iii. 16. Where Bellarmine saith, " It ought to be observed, that St. Peter did not say that there were some...

...epistles of Paul, says that there are in them some things difficult to be understood, which they who are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction; and immediately adds, You, therefore, my brethren, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard, lest,...

...Keymer of Colchester — with this motto, " Some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." A very solemn warning. Only a few of many misapplied texts are explained in these two books. We offer...

...is playing with the Scripture, and not reasoning from it. (2.) "Because in the Epistles of St. Paul are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable deprave, as also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own perdition," 2 Pet. iii. 16. Now, in my opinion,...

...the Epistles of Paul, he tells us there " are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." 14. It is thus that I would have a minister of the gospel address himself to the subject of human sinfulness....