The matters spoken of by Paul are the coming judgment (2 Peter 3:12) and the new creation (2 Peter 3:13),1 and thus the importance of holiness and patiently waiting for Christ.2 That the expectation of Christ’s return should be a motive for Christian righteousness and the period up to the return an opportunity for repentance and righteousness had also been Paul’s teaching in his letters.3
16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.