⁸But do not let this one fact escape your notice, ^abeloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and ^ba thousand years like one day.

⁹^aThe Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but ^bis patient toward you, ^cnot wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

A New Heaven and Earth

¹⁰But ^athe day of the Lord ^bwill come like a thief, in which ^cthe heavens ^dwill pass away with a roar and the ^eelements will be destroyed with intense heat, and ^fthe earth and ¹its works will be ²burned up.

¹¹Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

¹²^alooking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which ^bthe heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the ^celements will melt with intense heat!

¹³But according to His ^apromise we are looking for ^bnew heavens and a new earth, ^cin which righteousness dwells.

¹⁴^aTherefore, ^bbeloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be ^cfound by Him in peace, ^dspotless and blameless,

Read in Logos

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.

Footnotes

1Lit the works in it
2Two early mss read discovered

Cross references

a 2 Pet 3:1
b Ps 90:4
a Hab 2:3; Rom 13:11; Heb 10:37
b Rom 2:4; Rev 2:21
c 1 Tim 2:4; Rev 2:21
a 1 Cor 1:8
b Matt 24:43; Luke 12:39; 1 Thess 5:2; Rev 3:3; 16:15
c Is 34:4; 2 Pet 3:7, 12
d Matt 24:35; Rev 21:1
e Is 24:19; Mic 1:4
f 2 Pet 3:7
a 1 Cor 1:7
b 2 Pet 3:7, 10
c Is 24:19; 34:4; Mic 1:4
a Is 65:17; 66:22
b Rom 8:21; Rev 21:1
c Is 60:21; 65:25; Rev 21:27
a 1 Cor 15:58; 2 Pet 1:10
b 2 Pet 3:1
c 1 Pet 1:7
d Phil 2:15; 1 Thess 5:23; 1 Tim 6:14; James 1:27