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40 free 2 Peter trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
2 Peter is one of the shortest books in the New Testament, and it reads like a farewell. The writer expects to die soon, wants his readers to remember what they were taught, and spends his three chapters on a few urgent themes: growing in character, spotting teachers who cannot be trusted, and waiting well for a day that seems slow in coming. This quiz follows the letter chapter by chapter. Chapter 1 covers the opening greeting, the well-known chain of qualities in verses 5 to 8, and the writer's claim to have seen Christ's glory for himself. Chapter 2 covers the warnings from ancient history in verses 4 to 6 and the vivid pictures the writer uses for false teachers. Chapter 3 covers the doubts about Christ's return and the letter's answer to them. A handful of questions look at where the letter came from, how it relates to other New Testament books and how the early church received it, with King James wording noted along the way. It suits Bible study groups, Sunday school classes, youth quiz teams and anyone reading through the letters of Peter who wants to check what has stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation that points back to the text.
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Q 01Which animal does 2 Peter 2:16 say spoke with a human voice to restrain a prophet's madness?
A donkey
A donkey, normally without speech, rebuked its own rider, and the King James Version puts it more bluntly: the dumb ass forbade the madness of the prophet.
Q 02According to 2 Peter 3:8, one day with the Lord is like what length of time, a fact readers must not overlook?
A thousand years
A thousand years are like a day to the Lord, the verse adds in reverse, and the next verse draws the point: the delay is patience, not slowness.
Q 03To what does 2 Peter 3:10 compare the coming of the day of the Lord, an image also found in 1 Thessalonians?
A thief
A thief gives no warning, and the verse goes on to say the heavens will vanish with a roar and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
Q 04Which two cities does 2 Peter 2:6 say God reduced to ashes as an example of what awaits the ungodly?
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah are the last of three ancient judgments the chapter lists in a row, each one set beside the point that God still knows how to rescue the godly.
Q 05In the saying quoted at 2 Peter 2:22, which animal goes back to its own vomit?
A dog
A dog going back to what it threw up is the letter's picture of people who learned the right way and then turned their backs on it.
Q 06Which figure does 2 Peter 2:5 call a preacher, kept safe with seven others when the ancient world fell?
Noah
Noah is called the eighth person in the King James Version, a literal rendering that many newer translations smooth into Noah and seven others.
Q 07Which Gospel event does the writer of 2 Peter recall when he says he heard a voice from heaven on a mountain?
The Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is told in Matthew, Mark and Luke, and 2 Peter 1:16-18 cites it as proof that the apostles had seen Christ's majesty for themselves.
Q 08Which fellow apostle does 2 Peter 3:15 call a dear brother who wrote to the same readers with God-given wisdom?
Paul
Paul's letters, the next verse adds, contain passages that unstable people distort as they do the rest of the Scriptures, a sign his writing already ranked beside them.
Q 09Under which Roman emperor does Christian tradition place the death of Peter, which 2 Peter 1:14 says is near?
Nero
Nero's reign in the 60s is when tradition says Peter was martyred, so a literal reading dates the letter to about AD 64 to 68.
Q 10Which Greek word stands behind the brotherly kindness that 2 Peter 1:7 tells believers to add to godliness?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, the word later given to an American city, appears six times in the New Testament, and two of them fall in this single verse.
Q 11The opening verse of 2 Peter names its writer as Peter with which other name placed in front?
Simon
Simon becomes Simeon in some translations of this verse, an older spelling of the apostle's name that also turns up in Acts 15:14.
Q 12According to 2 Peter 1:4, believers who receive God's great promises become partakers of what?
The divine nature
The divine nature is shared, the verse says, by people who have escaped the corruption that evil desires cause in the world.
Q 13Which quality does 2 Peter 1:5 tell believers to add to their faith first, before knowledge and the rest?
Virtue
Virtue heads a ladder of seven qualities, each one added to the one before, and some translations call it excellence instead.
Q 21According to 2 Peter 2:1, what will false teachers secretly bring in, earning themselves swift destruction?
Heresies
Heresies, called destructive here and damnable in the King James Version, go as far as denying the Master who bought the teachers themselves.
Q 22Whom does 2 Peter 2:4 say God did not spare when they sinned, keeping them in chains of darkness for judgment?
Angels
Angels come first in a run of three warnings from the distant past, the argument being that if even they were not spared, false teachers will not be.
Q 23Which abyss of Greek myth lies behind the verb that 2 Peter 2:4 uses for casting sinners into hell?
Tartarus
Tartarus is where the Titans were thrown down in classical myth; the letter turns the name into a verb, which the King James Version renders simply as hell.
Q 14Which quality does 2 Peter 1:6 place between knowledge and perseverance in its chain of things to add to faith?
Self-control
Self-control is temperance in the King James Version, which also has patience where newer translations say perseverance.
Q 15Which quality crowns the list in 2 Peter 1:5-7, the last one added, straight after brotherly kindness?
Love
Love is charity in the King James Version, and the next verse promises that these qualities keep a believer from being ineffective and unproductive.
Q 16How does 2 Peter 1:9 describe a believer who lacks the letter's chain of qualities and forgets being cleansed from sin?
Blind
Blind is the verse's verdict, sharpened with a word for nearsighted: such a person sees only what is close and cannot see far off.
Q 17Which image does the writer of 2 Peter use for his own body, saying it will soon be laid aside?
A tent
A tent, or tabernacle in the King James Version, is the writer's picture of a body he expects to leave soon, as Christ had made clear to him.
Q 18Which light does 2 Peter 1:19 say will rise in believers' hearts, after likening prophecy to a lamp in the dark?
The morning star
The morning star is the day star in the King James Version, and readers are told to hold to the prophetic word until that day dawns.
Q 192 Peter 1:16 insists the apostles did not follow cleverly devised what when preaching Christ's coming?
Fables
Fables is the King James Version's word too, there called cunningly devised, and the writer sets against them what he saw as an eyewitness.
Q 20According to 2 Peter 1:21, prophets spoke from God, not by human will, as they were carried along by whom?
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Holy Ghost in the King James Version, and the verse before warns that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one's own interpretation.
Q 24Which man does 2 Peter 2:7 say God rescued, tormented day after day by the lawless deeds he saw and heard?
Lot
Lot is described as living among lawless people day after day, and his rescue is the letter's proof that God can pull the godly out of trials.
Q 25Which phrase does the King James Version of 2 Peter 2:12 use for false teachers, made to be taken and destroyed?
Brute beasts
Brute beasts, or irrational animals in newer translations, are creatures of instinct, and the verse says the teachers will perish as such creatures do.
Q 26Which son of Beor does 2 Peter 2:15 say false teachers follow, a man who chased the wages of wickedness?
Balaam
Balaam was hired in the Book of Numbers by the king of Moab to curse Israel, and the King James Version calls his father Bosor rather than Beor.
Q 27What do the false teachers of 2 Peter 2:19 promise the people they entice with lofty but empty words?
Freedom
Freedom is liberty in the King James Version, and the verse ends with a maxim: a person is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
Q 28Which animal, in the second saying quoted at 2 Peter 2:22, is washed and then goes back to its old ways?
A sow
A sow returns to the mire in the King James Version, and the letter aims the image at people who knew the way and then turned from the commandment handed to them.
Q 29Which church father first suggested Peter used different secretaries, explaining why 1 and 2 Peter differ in style?
Jerome
Jerome's idea is one that defenders of Peter as author often appeal to, though most critical scholars think a later writer composed the letter in his name.
Q 302 Peter ends at 3:18 by urging readers to grow in the knowledge of Christ and in what else?
Grace
Grace opens the letter as well, in a greeting that asks for it to be multiplied, and the last line gives glory to Christ now and to the day of eternity.