2 Peter 3:17

Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, ¹  be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men ²  and fall from your firm grasp on the truth. ³ 

Pr 1:17; Mt 7:15; Mt 16:6,11; Mt 24:24,25; Mt 24:24; Mr 13:22; Mr 13:23; Joh 16:4; Ac 2:42; Ro 16:18; 1Co 15:58; 2Co 11:3,13-15; Eph 4:14; Php 3:2; Col 2:5; Col 2:8; 2Ti 4:15; Heb 3:14; 1Pe 5:9; 2Pe 1:10,11; 2Pe 1:12; 2Pe 2:18-20; 2Pe 2:18-22

¹ tn Grk “knowing beforehand.”

² tn Or “lawless ones.”

sn These unprincipled men. The same word is used in 2:7, suggesting further that the heretics in view in chapter 3 are the false teachers of chapter 2.

³ tn Grk “fall from your firmness.”