2 Peter 3:11–18

¹¹Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives ¹²as you look forward^e to the day of God and speed its coming.^bf That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.^{g 13}But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth,^h where righteousness dwells.

¹⁴So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blamelessⁱ and at peace with him. ¹⁵Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience^j means salvation,^k just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him.^{l 16}He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable^m people distort,ⁿ as they do the other Scriptures,^o to their own destruction.

¹⁷Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard^p so that you may not be carried away by the error^q of the lawless^r and fall from your secure position.^{s 18}But grow in the grace^t and knowledge^u of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.^v To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.^w