Passage

Keeping their footing

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

2 Peter 3:17World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The readers are warned not to be carried away by error and fall from their firmness.

To understand

The preceding sentence describes difficult writings being twisted by unstable readers. The letter ends by asking for growth in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ.

A question

What danger to the readers' firmness is named before the closing instruction to grow?