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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Peter 3:15 Catholic Bible: Look on our Lord's patience as the opportunity he is giving you to be saved, just as our dear friend Paul wrote to you, using the wisdom that God gave him. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_peter/3-15.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/2_peter/3-15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_peter/3-15.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_peter/1.htm">2 Peter</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_peter/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_peter/3-14.htm" title="2 Peter 3:14">◄</a> 2 Peter 3:15 <a href="../2_peter/3-16.htm" title="2 Peter 3:16">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_peter/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_peter/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Look on our Lord's patience as the opportunity he is giving you to be saved, just as our dear friend Paul wrote to you, using the wisdom that God gave him. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_peter/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_peter/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Don't forget that the Lord is patient because he wants people to be saved. This is also what our dear friend Paul said when he wrote you with the wisdom God had given him. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_peter/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, also wrote to you,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_peter/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:</p><p class="hdg">account.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/3-9.htm">2 Peter 3:9</a> The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/2-4.htm">Romans 2:4</a> Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/1-16.htm">1 Timothy 1:16</a> But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/3-20.htm">1 Peter 3:20</a> Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.</p><p class="hdg">our beloved.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/15-25.htm">Acts 15:25</a> It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:</p><p class="hdg">according.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/31-3.htm">Exodus 31:3,6</a> And I have filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge in all manner of work, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/35-31.htm">Exodus 35:31,35</a> And hath filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge, and all learning, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/3-12.htm">1 Kings 3:12,28</a> Behold I have done for thee according to thy words, and have given thee a wise and understanding heart, in so much that there hath been no one like thee before thee, nor shall arise after thee. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/4-29.htm">1 Kings 4:29</a> And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezra/7-25.htm">Ezra 7:25</a> And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in thy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the people, that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of thy God, yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/2-6.htm">Proverbs 2:6,7</a> He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/2-26.htm">Ecclesiastes 2:26</a> God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../daniel/2-20.htm">Daniel 2:20,21</a> And speaking, he said: Blessed be the name of the Lord from eternity and for evermore: for wisdom and fortitude are his. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/21-15.htm">Luke 21:15</a> For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist and gainsay.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../acts/7-10.htm">Acts 7:10</a> And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and over all his house.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/2-13.htm">1 Corinthians 2:13</a> Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/12-8.htm">1 Corinthians 12:8</a> To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/1-5.htm">James 1:5</a> But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/3-17.htm">James 3:17</a> But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_peter/3.htm">Final Exhortations</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14</span>Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace. <span class="reftext">15</span><span class="highl">And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:</span> <span class="reftext">16</span>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 wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/30-18.htm">Isaiah 30:18</a></span><br />Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/9-17.htm">Acts 9:17</a></span><br />And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../acts/15-25.htm">Acts 15:25</a></span><br />It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/2-4.htm">Romans 2:4</a></span><br />Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/3-10.htm">1 Corinthians 3:10</a></span><br />According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise architect, I have laid the foundation: and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ephesians/3-3.htm">Ephesians 3:3</a></span><br />How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_peter/3-2.htm">2 Peter 3:2</a></span><br />That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_peter/3-9.htm">2 Peter 3:9</a></span><br />The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" 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