2 Peter 3

Worrell^{(i) 1} This, a second letter, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your sincere mind by way of remembrance; ² that ye remember the words spoken before by holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Savior by your apostles. ³ Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers with scoffing, walking after their own desires, ⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? for, from the day the fathers fell asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation." ⁵ For this escapes them willingly, that there were heavens of old, and an earth set together out of water, and through water, by the word of God: ⁶ through which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; ⁷ but the present heavens and the earth, by the same word, have been stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. ⁸ But, beloved, let not this one thing escape you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow respecting the promise, as some account slowness; but He is long-suffering toward you, 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, being intensely hot, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works therein shall be burned up. ¹¹ Seeing, therefore, that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conduct 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, being intensely hot, shall melt! ¹³ But, according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness, ¹⁴ Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight. ¹⁵ And account the long-suffering of our Lord salvation; as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you; ¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. ¹⁷ Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be on your guard, lest, being carried away with error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness. ¹⁸ But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.