the preciousness of the faith he urges his readers to advance in (1:3–11). The Christian readers of Peter’s letter are saved and nurtured by power no less than that of God himself; the false teachers who have come among them are in the perilous position of fighting against no less an adversary than God himself; and the glory of the former and the doom of the latter are determined by the same Savior God introduced in the letter’s salutation and extolled in its conclusion (3:18) as God and Lord to