¹This, a second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in both which I stir up, in the way of putting you in remembrance, your pure mind, ²to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles;

³knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts, ⁴and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation. ⁵For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God, ⁶through which waters the then world, deluged with water, perished. ⁷But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

⁸But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

⁹The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

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2 Peter 3:9: The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

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