ABU(i)
3 knowing this first, that there shall come in the last of the days scoffers, in their scoffings, walking after their own lusts,
4 and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? for from the day the fathers fell asleep, all things so continue, from the beginning of the creation.
5 For of this they willingly are ignorant, that by the word of God there were heavens of old, and earth framed out of water and by means of water,
6 whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;
7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by his word are kept in store, being reserved for fire unto the day of judgment and of perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not tardy in respect to the promise, as some account tardiness; but is long-suffering toward us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will be dissolved with burning heat, and the earth and the works therein will be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things are dissolving, what manner of men ought ye to be, in all holy deportment and godliness;
12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with burning heat?