2 Peter Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What are we to add to our faith?
- A. Virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity ✓
- B. Works
- C. Law-keeping
- D. Wealth
Answer: Virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Q2.What did Peter say he had not followed?
- A. Cunningly devised fables ✓
- B. The traditions of men
- C. The law of Moses
- D. Philosophy
Answer: Cunningly devised fables
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Q3.What did Peter say about prophecy?
- A. No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation
- B. It comes from the Holy Ghost
- C. Both ✓
- D. Neither
Answer: Both
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Q4.Who were the angels that sinned?
- A. Those cast down to hell and delivered into chains of darkness ✓
- B. The demons
- C. Satan's followers
- D. All of the above
Answer: Those cast down to hell and delivered into chains of darkness
God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.
Q5.What did God do to Sodom and Gomorrah?
- A. Turned them into ashes
- B. Condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample
- C. Both ✓
- D. Forsook them
Answer: Both
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.
Q6.What did Peter say about false teachers?
- A. They shall privily bring in damnable heresies
- B. They shall deny the Lord that bought them
- C. They shall speak evil of the way of truth
- D. All of the above ✓
Answer: All of the above
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them… And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Q7.What did Peter say about the Lord's coming?
- A. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day
- B. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise
- C. Both ✓
- D. Neither
Answer: Both
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Q8.What will happen to the heavens and earth?
- A. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ✓
- B. They will remain forever
- C. They will be renovated
- D. They will be expanded
Answer: The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Q9.What are we to look for?
- A. New heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness ✓
- B. The restoration of Israel
- C. The rebuilding of the temple
- D. A golden age
Answer: New heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Q10.What did Peter say about Paul's epistles?
- A. They contain some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest unto their own destruction ✓
- B. They are simple
- C. They are only for scholars
- D. They are outdated
Answer: They contain some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest unto their own destruction
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.