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2 Peter 3

God’s Promise Is Not Slack

Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which ^aI stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words ^awhich were spoken before by the holy prophets, ^band of the commandment of ¹us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, ^awalking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of ^acreation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that ^aby the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth ^bstanding out of water and in the water, 6 ^aby which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But ^athe heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for ^bfire until the day of judgment and ¹perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and ^aa thousand years as one day. 9 ^aThe Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but ^bis longsuffering toward ¹us, ^cnot willing that any should perish but ^dthat all should come to repentance.

The Day of the Lord

10 But ^athe day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which ^bthe heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be ¹burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be ^ain holy conduct and godliness, 12 ^alooking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will ^bbe dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will ^cmelt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for ^anew heavens and a ^bnew earth in which righteousness dwells.

Be Steadfast

14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent ^ato be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider that ^athe longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his ^aepistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the ^brest of the Scriptures.
17 You therefore, beloved, ^asince you know this beforehand, ^bbeware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 ^abut grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
^bTo Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

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