2 Peter 3:15

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation The words have a pointed reference to 2 Peter 3:9. Men were impatient, and counted the "long-suffering of God" as tardiness in the fulfilment of His promises. The true way of looking at it was to see in it the working out of His plan of salvation for all who should be willing to receive it. In the "long-suffering of our Lord" (obviously from 2 Peter 3:18), the "Lord Jesus," we see a testimony, indirect but not the less explicit, to the full participation of the Son in the counsels and purposes of the Father.

even as our beloved brother Paul The words imply a full recognition of St Paul's work as a brother in the Apostleship, and are in harmony, as has been noticed, with 1 Peter 5:12; 2Pe 1:12; 2 Peter 3:2.

according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you As far as the subject-matter is concerned, 1 Thessalonians 4:5. and 2 Thessalonians 2 seem to correspond most closely with St Peter's reference, and as these were written when Silvanus was with St Paul (see note on 1 Peter 5:12), there is strong ground for believing that St Peter would be acquainted with their contents. If, on the other hand, we restrict the words "hath written to you" to the Asiatic Churches to whom 1 Peter was addressed, we may think of Ephesians 1:14; Ephesians 2:7; Ephesians 3:9-11; Colossians 1:20, as referred to here, while the statements are included in the allusion in the next verse.