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New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Peter 3:2-18

2that you should 1remember the words spoken beforehand by 2the holy prophets and 3the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles. 34Know this first of all, that 5in the last days 6mockers will come with their mocking, 7following after their own lusts, 4and saying, “8Where is the promise of His 9coming? For ever since the fathers 10fell asleep, all continues just as it was 11from the beginning of creation.” 5For 12when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that 13by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was 14formed out of water and by water, 6through which 15the world at that time was 16destroyed, being flooded with water. 7But by His word 17the present heavens and earth are being reserved for 18fire, kept for 19the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

8But do not let this one fact escape your notice, 20beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and 21a thousand years like one day. 922The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but 23is patient toward you, 24not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10But 25the day of the Lord 26will come like a thief, in which 27the heavens 28will pass away with a roar and the 29elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and 30the earth and 31its works will be 32burned up.

11Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 1233looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which 34the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the 35elements will melt with intense heat! 13But according to His 36promise we are looking for 37new heavens and a new earth, 38in which righteousness dwells.

1439Therefore, 40beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be 41found by Him in peace, 42spotless and blameless, 15and regard the 43patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also 44our beloved brother Paul, 45according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16as also in all his letters, speaking in them of 46these things, 47in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and 48unstable distort, as they do also 49the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17You therefore, 50beloved, knowing this beforehand, 51be on your guard so that you are not carried away by 52the error of 53unprincipled men and 54fall from your own steadfastness, 18but grow in the grace and 55knowledge of our 56Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 57To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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Notes

  1. 1. 2 Peter 3:2 Jude 17 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Peter 3:2 Luke 1:70; Acts 3:21; Eph 3:5 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Peter 3:2 Gal 6:2; 1 Tim 6:14; 2 Pet 2:21 ↩
  4. 4. 2 Peter 3:3 2 Pet 1:20 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Peter 3:3 1 Tim 4:1; Heb 1:2 ↩
  6. 6. 2 Peter 3:3 Jude 18 ↩
  7. 7. 2 Peter 3:3 2 Pet 2:10 ↩
  8. 8. 2 Peter 3:4 Is 5:19; Jer 17:15; Ezek 11:3; 12:22, 27; Mal 2:17; Matt 24:48 ↩
  9. 9. 2 Peter 3:4 1 Thess 2:19; 2 Pet 3:12 ↩
  10. 10. 2 Peter 3:4 Acts 7:60 ↩
  11. 11. 2 Peter 3:4 Mark 10:6 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Peter 3:5 Or they are willfully ignorant of this fact, that ↩
  13. 13. 2 Peter 3:5 Gen 1:6, 9; Heb 11:3 ↩
  14. 14. 2 Peter 3:5 Ps 24:2; 136:6 ↩
  15. 15. 2 Peter 3:6 2 Pet 2:5 ↩
  16. 16. 2 Peter 3:6 Gen 7:11, 12, 21f ↩
  17. 17. 2 Peter 3:7 2 Pet 3:10, 12 ↩
  18. 18. 2 Peter 3:7 Is 66:15; Dan 7:9f; 2 Thess 1:7; Heb 12:29 ↩
  19. 19. 2 Peter 3:7 Matt 10:15; 1 Cor 3:13; Jude 7 ↩
  20. 20. 2 Peter 3:8 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
  21. 21. 2 Peter 3:8 Ps 90:4 ↩
  22. 22. 2 Peter 3:9 Hab 2:3; Rom 13:11; Heb 10:37 ↩
  23. 23. 2 Peter 3:9 Rom 2:4; Rev 2:21 ↩
  24. 24. 2 Peter 3:9 1 Tim 2:4; Rev 2:21 ↩
  25. 25. 2 Peter 3:10 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
  26. 26. 2 Peter 3:10 Matt 24:43; Luke 12:39; 1 Thess 5:2; Rev 3:3; 16:15 ↩
  27. 27. 2 Peter 3:10 Is 34:4; 2 Pet 3:7, 12 ↩
  28. 28. 2 Peter 3:10 Matt 24:35; Rev 21:1 ↩
  29. 29. 2 Peter 3:10 Is 24:19; Mic 1:4 ↩
  30. 30. 2 Peter 3:10 2 Pet 3:7 ↩
  31. 31. 2 Peter 3:10 Lit the works in it ↩
  32. 32. 2 Peter 3:10 Two early mss read discovered ↩
  33. 33. 2 Peter 3:12 1 Cor 1:7 ↩
  34. 34. 2 Peter 3:12 2 Pet 3:7, 10 ↩
  35. 35. 2 Peter 3:12 Is 24:19; 34:4; Mic 1:4 ↩
  36. 36. 2 Peter 3:13 Is 65:17; 66:22 ↩
  37. 37. 2 Peter 3:13 Rom 8:21; Rev 21:1 ↩
  38. 38. 2 Peter 3:13 Is 60:21; 65:25; Rev 21:27 ↩
  39. 39. 2 Peter 3:14 1 Cor 15:58; 2 Pet 1:10 ↩
  40. 40. 2 Peter 3:14 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
  41. 41. 2 Peter 3:14 1 Pet 1:7 ↩
  42. 42. 2 Peter 3:14 Phil 2:15; 1 Thess 5:23; 1 Tim 6:14; James 1:27 ↩
  43. 43. 2 Peter 3:15 2 Pet 3:9 ↩
  44. 44. 2 Peter 3:15 Acts 9:17; 15:25; 2 Pet 3:2 ↩
  45. 45. 2 Peter 3:15 1 Cor 3:10; Eph 3:3 ↩
  46. 46. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 3:14 ↩
  47. 47. 2 Peter 3:16 Heb 5:11 ↩
  48. 48. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 2:14 ↩
  49. 49. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 3:2 ↩
  50. 50. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
  51. 51. 2 Peter 3:17 1 Cor 10:12 ↩
  52. 52. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 2:18 ↩
  53. 53. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 2:7 ↩
  54. 54. 2 Peter 3:17 Rev 2:5 ↩
  55. 55. 2 Peter 3:18 2 Pet 1:2 ↩
  56. 56. 2 Peter 3:18 2 Pet 1:11; 2:20 ↩
  57. 57. 2 Peter 3:18 Rom 11:36; 2 Tim 4:18; Rev 1:6 ↩

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