2 Peter 3:1-11 ▼

1 This [is] now, beloved, a second letter I write to you, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding [you]

2 to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior,

3 knowing this first, that there will come scoffers in the last days, going on according to their own desires,

4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation”;

5 for this they willingly conceal, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth having been established by the word of God out of water and through water,

6 through which the world then, having been flooded by water, was destroyed;

7 and by the same word, the present heavens and earth, having been stored up for fire, are being preserved until [the] day of judgment and destruction of impious men.

8 And do not let this one thing be concealed from you, beloved, that one day with the LORD [is] as one thousand years and one thousand years as one day;

9 the LORD is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not intending any to be lost, but all to come to conversion,

10 and it will come—the Day of the LORD—as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will be dissolved with burning heat, and [the] earth and the works in it will not be found.

11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons ought you to be in holy behaviors and pious acts,