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I was expecting proof text, not an admonition.

I think the original poster meant 2 Peter 3:15-16:

15And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16as 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.

Note the last part: "as they do the other Scripture." If you are Roman Catholic, I would assume that the words of Peter would carry a lot of weight with you.

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If you are Roman Catholic, I would assume that the words of Peter would carry a lot of weight with you

As a Catholic, we read the bible at home and in the community at mass. And you know what -- at nearly every time Peter is mentioned in the Gospels, he acts like a complete idiot -- either he boasts or he is cowardly or he is too aggressive and Christ rebukes him. Yet, we see in that simple fisherman a strong belief in His Lord and God, a simple man, yes, but one with a strong faith in Christ and some innate way of knowing when he goes wrong.

the epistles of Peter show a changed man, one who humbly accepts and is yet intensely brave. We don't hang on his words like we do the words of Paul, but we hang on his faith, his strong belief in Christ -- he may not have been an intellectual, but he was a better Christian than the most learned of all theologians.