2 Peter 3:1-9 ▼

1 Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you? in which I am stirring up your? pure mind in a reminder

2 to remember the words having been spoken beforehand by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Savior by your? apostles,

3 first knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, going according to their own passions

4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For from which time the fathers fell asleep, all things continue in this way from the beginning of creation.”

5 For this is hidden from them willingly, that the heavens were long ago, and the earth, out of water and through water having been composed by the word of God,

6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, having been deluged with water.

7 But by the same word the present heavens and the earth are having been stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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

9 The Lord is not slow in the promise, as some esteem slowness, but is patient toward you?, not wishing for any to perish, but all to receive a place for repentance.