2PE-3:1  This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in

[both] which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2PE-3:2  That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken

before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the

apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

2PE-3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last

days

scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

2PE-3:4  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for

since

the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from

the

beginning of the creation.

2PE-3:5  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the

word

of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the

water and in the water:

2PE-3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with

water, perished:

2PE-3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the

same

word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of

judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

2PE-3:8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that

one

day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years

as

one day.

2PE-3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some

men

count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing

that

any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2PE-3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the

night;

in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and

the

elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the

works

that are therein shall be burned up.

2PE-3:11  [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be

dissolved,

what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy

conversation

and godliness,

2PE-3:12  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of

God,

wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the

elements shall melt with fervent heat?

2PE-3:13  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new

heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

2PE-3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such

things,

be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,

and

blameless.

2PE-3:15  And account [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is]

salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the

wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

2PE-3:16  As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of

these

things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which

they

that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the

other

scriptures, unto their own destruction.

2PE-3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know [these things]

before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the

wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

2PE-3:18  But grow in grace, and [in] the knowledge of our Lord

and

Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and for ever.

Amen.

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