¹This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding you, ²to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.

³This first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on, ⁴and saying, ‘Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;’ ⁵for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God, ⁶through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed; ⁷and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

⁸And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

⁹The Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation, ¹⁰and it will come—the day of the Lord—as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and 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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