| Editor's Foreword | vii |
| Author's Preface | ix |
| Abbreviations | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1 Peter | |
| Introduction | 9 |
| Author and Audience | 9 |
| Composition and Content | 13 |
| Occasion, Strategy, and Message | 16 |
| Opening (1:1-2) | 27 |
| Writer (1:1a) | 27 |
| Addresses (1:1b-21) | 29 |
| Greeting (1:2b) | 33 |
| Through Mercy, Chosen To Be God's People (1:3-2:10) | 35 |
| Blessing: New Birth, Joy, Salvation (1:3-12) | 37 |
| Conduct: Holiness, Faith, Love (1:13-25) | 56 |
| Growth as God's People (2:1-10) | 75 |
| Exhortation for Resident Aliens and Religious Exiles (2:11-4:11) | 95 |
| Honorable Conduct: Duty Code (2:11-3:12) | 97 |
| Soteriological and Paradigmatic Role of Suffering (3:13-4:6) | 142 |
| Community Exhortation in View of the End (4:7-11) | 176 |
| Final Considerations and Renewed Exhortation (4:12-5:11) | 185 |
| Sharing Christ's Sufferings (4:12-19) | 187 |
| Community Code and Exhortation (5:1-5) | 200 |
| Closing Exhortation (5:6-11) | 214 |
| Closing (5:12-14) | 225 |
| The Letter, Its Carrier, and Its Purpose (5:12) | 226 |
| Koinonia and Other Themes (5:13-14a) | 228 |
| A Final Benediction (5:14b) | 231 |
| Jude | |
| Introduction | 235 |
| Author and Audience | 235 |
| Composition and Content | 239 |
| Strategy and Message | 240 |
| Opening (1-3) | 245 |
| Epistolary Opening (1-2) | 245 |
| Body Opening (3) | 249 |
| Six Alternating Patterns Regarding False Teachers (4-23) | 255 |
| False Teachers, Charges, and Punishment (4-7) | 259 |
| Triple Charges and Prediction of Divine Punishment (8-9) | 267 |
| Charges, Condemnation, and Divine Punishment (10-11) | 273 |
| Multiple Charges and Prediction of Divine Punishment (12-15) | 278 |
| Charges and Apostolic Predictions (16-18) | 285 |
| Charges, Community Activity, Body Closing (19-23) | 289 |
| Closing (24-25) | 297 |
| Praise to God as Protector (24) | 297 |
| A Closing Doxology (25) | 299 |
| 2 Peter | |
| Redaction of Jude by 2 Peter | 303 |
| Introduction | 307 |
| Author and Audience | 307 |
| Genre, Content, and Structure | 309 |
| Strategy and Message | 313 |
| Opening (1:1-11) | 319 |
| Epistolary Opening (1:1-2) | 319 |
| Body Opening (1:3-11) | 324 |
| True and False Prophecy (1:12-2:22) | 333 |
| Peter and the Reliability of Apostolic Tradition (1:12-21) | 333 |
| False Teachers: Their Deception and Punishment (2:1-22) | 347 |
| The Lord's Day: Promise, Providence, and Power (3:1-16) | 373 |
| Delay of the Parousia, Repentance, Endtime (3:1-10) | 373 |
| Final Exhortation about Holy Conduct (3:11-16) | 383 |
| Closing (3:17-18) | 391 |
| Final Exhortation (3:17-18a) | 391 |
| A Closing Doxology (3:18b) | 393 |
