2 Peter Bible — KJV Bible Study Guide
A free 10-lesson Bible study guide on 2 peter bible, drawn entirely from the King James Version. Each lesson opens with a study question, gives the verse reference, and offers a short teaching note. Use it for personal devotions, a small group, or a Sunday school class.
The 10 lessons
Lesson 1 · 2 Peter 1:5 (KJV)
What are we to add to our faith?
Answer: Virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity
Study note. 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.
Lesson 2 · 2 Peter 1:16 (KJV)
What did Peter say he had not followed?
Answer: Cunningly devised fables
Study note. 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.
Lesson 3 · 2 Peter 1:20 (KJV)
What did Peter say about prophecy?
Answer: Both
Study note. 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.
Lesson 4 · 2 Peter 2:4 (KJV)
Who were the angels that sinned?
Answer: Those cast down to hell and delivered into chains of darkness
Study note. 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.
Lesson 5 · 2 Peter 2:6 (KJV)
What did God do to Sodom and Gomorrah?
Answer: Both
Study note. 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.
Lesson 6 · 2 Peter 2:1 (KJV)
What did Peter say about false teachers?
Answer: All of the above
Study note. 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.
Lesson 7 · 2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)
What did Peter say about the Lord's coming?
Answer: Both
Study note. 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.
Lesson 8 · 2 Peter 3:10 (KJV)
What will happen to the heavens and earth?
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
Study note. 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.
Lesson 9 · 2 Peter 3:13 (KJV)
What are we to look for?
Answer: New heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness
Study note. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Lesson 10 · 2 Peter 3:16 (KJV)
What did Peter say about Paul's epistles?
Answer: They contain some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest unto their own destruction
Study note. 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.
Key verses to memorize
The passages this study returns to most often — pick one or two and commit them to memory this week.
Discussion questions
- Which lesson in this study surprised you the most, and why?
- How does 2 peter bible point us to Jesus Christ and the gospel?
- Pick one verse from the key passages above. How does it shape the way you will pray, read, or live this week?
- Who in your life could you share one of these truths with in the next seven days?