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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!