New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Peter 3:9-18

9 1The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but 2is patient toward you, 3not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10But 4the day of the Lord 5will come like a thief, in which 6the heavens 7will pass away with a roar and the 8elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and 9the earth and 10its works will be 11burned 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, 12 12looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which 13the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the 14elements will melt with intense heat! 13But according to His 15promise we are looking for 16new heavens and a new earth, 17in which righteousness dwells.

14 18Therefore, 19beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be 20found by Him in peace, 21spotless and blameless, 15and regard the 22patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also 23our beloved brother Paul, 24according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16as also in all his letters, speaking in them of 25these things, 26in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and 27unstable distort, as they do also 28the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17You therefore, 29beloved, knowing this beforehand, 30be on your guard so that you are not carried away by 31the error of 32unprincipled men and 33fall from your own steadfastness, 18but grow in the grace and 34knowledge of our 35Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 36To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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Notes

1. 2 Peter 3:9 Hab 2:3; Rom 13:11; Heb 10:37 ↩
2. 2 Peter 3:9 Rom 2:4; Rev 2:21 ↩
3. 2 Peter 3:9 1 Tim 2:4; Rev 2:21 ↩
4. 2 Peter 3:10 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
5. 2 Peter 3:10 Matt 24:43; Luke 12:39; 1 Thess 5:2; Rev 3:3; 16:15 ↩
6. 2 Peter 3:10 Is 34:4; 2 Pet 3:7, 12 ↩
7. 2 Peter 3:10 Matt 24:35; Rev 21:1 ↩
8. 2 Peter 3:10 Is 24:19; Mic 1:4 ↩
9. 2 Peter 3:10 2 Pet 3:7 ↩
10. 2 Peter 3:10 Lit the works in it ↩
11. 2 Peter 3:10 Two early mss read discovered ↩
12. 2 Peter 3:12 1 Cor 1:7 ↩
13. 2 Peter 3:12 2 Pet 3:7, 10 ↩
14. 2 Peter 3:12 Is 24:19; 34:4; Mic 1:4 ↩
15. 2 Peter 3:13 Is 65:17; 66:22 ↩
16. 2 Peter 3:13 Rom 8:21; Rev 21:1 ↩
17. 2 Peter 3:13 Is 60:21; 65:25; Rev 21:27 ↩
18. 2 Peter 3:14 1 Cor 15:58; 2 Pet 1:10 ↩
19. 2 Peter 3:14 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
20. 2 Peter 3:14 1 Pet 1:7 ↩
21. 2 Peter 3:14 Phil 2:15; 1 Thess 5:23; 1 Tim 6:14; James 1:27 ↩
22. 2 Peter 3:15 2 Pet 3:9 ↩
23. 2 Peter 3:15 Acts 9:17; 15:25; 2 Pet 3:2 ↩
24. 2 Peter 3:15 1 Cor 3:10; Eph 3:3 ↩
25. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 3:14 ↩
26. 2 Peter 3:16 Heb 5:11 ↩
27. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 2:14 ↩
28. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 3:2 ↩
29. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
30. 2 Peter 3:17 1 Cor 10:12 ↩
31. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 2:18 ↩
32. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 2:7 ↩
33. 2 Peter 3:17 Rev 2:5 ↩
34. 2 Peter 3:18 2 Pet 1:2 ↩
35. 2 Peter 3:18 2 Pet 1:11; 2:20 ↩
36. 2 Peter 3:18 Rom 11:36; 2 Tim 4:18; Rev 1:6 ↩

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