2 Peter 3:14-16
St. Peter on St. Paul's Letters
14 So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 15 Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
St. Peter writes about St. Paul...Of course, they knew each other...St. Peter says St. Paul's writings and letters are difficult to understand...Some Scriptures are difficult to understand...Sometimes one must take the time to read and reread the difficult Scriptures...One may need to use other tools and documentation, if necessary, to understand them...
Another thing about verse 16 St. Peter compares St. Paul's epistles to "other Scripture"...St. Peter here acknowledges that St. Paul's letters are Scripture...This is very interesting to have this said to be Scripture as the letters were being read among the churches...For a writing or writings to be classified as Scripture is a process...The writings must be reviewed and studied for their content, must be God inspired, authenticity and other requirements of a governing theologian body and then be "canonized" as an authoritative writing...
St. Paul tells Timothy in 2 Timothy 3:16-17, that All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful in teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness...By using and knowing scripture we will be equipped for work, life, and what life will show to us...The scriptures will make one wise for our salvation is through faith in Jesus, our Messiah...
St. Peter must have felt that St. Paul's letters were God-breathed, useful in teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness... St. Peter surely felt that St. Paul's writings were carried along by the Holy Spirit and were inspired by our Great LORD...