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2 Peter 3:2-18

2to 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 1011fell asleep, all things continue just as they were 12from the beginning of creation.” 5For 13when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that 14by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was 15formed out of water and by water, 6through which 16the world at that time was 17destroyed by being flooded with water. 7But by His word 18the present heavens and earth are being reserved for 19fire, kept for 20the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.

8But do not let this one fact escape your notice, 21beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and 22a thousand years like one day. 923The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but 24is patient toward you, 25not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. 10But 26the day of the Lord 27will come like a thief, in which 28the heavens 29will pass away with a roar and the 30elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and 31the earth and 32its works will be 33discovered.

11Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 1234looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which 35the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the 36elements will melt with intense heat! 13But according to His 37promise we are looking for 38new heavens and a new earth, 39in which righteousness dwells.

1440Therefore, 41beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be 42found 43spotless and blameless by Him, at peace, 15and regard the 44patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also 45our beloved brother Paul, 46according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16as also in all his letters, speaking in them of 47these things, 48in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and 49unstable distort, as they do also 50the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17You therefore, 51beloved, knowing this beforehand, 52be on your guard so that you are not carried away by 53the error of 5455unscrupulous people and 56lose your own 57firm commitment, 18but grow in the grace and 58knowledge of our 59Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 60To 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 I.e., died ↩
  11. 11. 2 Peter 3:4 Acts 7:60 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Peter 3:4 Mark 10:6 ↩
  13. 13. 2 Peter 3:5 Or they are willfully ignorant of this fact, that ↩
  14. 14. 2 Peter 3:5 Gen 1:6, 9; Heb 11:3 ↩
  15. 15. 2 Peter 3:5 Ps 24:2; 136:6 ↩
  16. 16. 2 Peter 3:6 2 Pet 2:5 ↩
  17. 17. 2 Peter 3:6 Gen 7:11, 12, 21f ↩
  18. 18. 2 Peter 3:7 2 Pet 3:10, 12 ↩
  19. 19. 2 Peter 3:7 Is 66:15; Dan 7:9f; 2 Thess 1:7; Heb 12:29 ↩
  20. 20. 2 Peter 3:7 Matt 10:15; 1 Cor 3:13; Jude 7 ↩
  21. 21. 2 Peter 3:8 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
  22. 22. 2 Peter 3:8 Ps 90:4 ↩
  23. 23. 2 Peter 3:9 Hab 2:3; Rom 13:11; Heb 10:37 ↩
  24. 24. 2 Peter 3:9 Rom 2:4; Rev 2:21 ↩
  25. 25. 2 Peter 3:9 1 Tim 2:4; Rev 2:21 ↩
  26. 26. 2 Peter 3:10 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
  27. 27. 2 Peter 3:10 Matt 24:43; Luke 12:39; 1 Thess 5:2; Rev 3:3; 16:15 ↩
  28. 28. 2 Peter 3:10 Is 34:4; 2 Pet 3:7, 12 ↩
  29. 29. 2 Peter 3:10 Matt 24:35; Rev 21:1 ↩
  30. 30. 2 Peter 3:10 Is 24:19; Mic 1:4 ↩
  31. 31. 2 Peter 3:10 2 Pet 3:7 ↩
  32. 32. 2 Peter 3:10 Lit the works in it ↩
  33. 33. 2 Peter 3:10 I.e., as worthless; late mss burned up ↩
  34. 34. 2 Peter 3:12 1 Cor 1:7 ↩
  35. 35. 2 Peter 3:12 2 Pet 3:7, 10 ↩
  36. 36. 2 Peter 3:12 Is 24:19; 34:4; Mic 1:4 ↩
  37. 37. 2 Peter 3:13 Is 65:17; 66:22 ↩
  38. 38. 2 Peter 3:13 Rom 8:21; Rev 21:1 ↩
  39. 39. 2 Peter 3:13 Is 60:21; 65:25; Rev 21:27 ↩
  40. 40. 2 Peter 3:14 1 Cor 15:58; 2 Pet 1:10 ↩
  41. 41. 2 Peter 3:14 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
  42. 42. 2 Peter 3:14 1 Pet 1:7 ↩
  43. 43. 2 Peter 3:14 Phil 2:15; 1 Thess 5:23; 1 Tim 6:14; James 1:27 ↩
  44. 44. 2 Peter 3:15 2 Pet 3:9 ↩
  45. 45. 2 Peter 3:15 Acts 9:17; 15:25; 2 Pet 3:2 ↩
  46. 46. 2 Peter 3:15 1 Cor 3:10; Eph 3:3 ↩
  47. 47. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 3:14 ↩
  48. 48. 2 Peter 3:16 Heb 5:11 ↩
  49. 49. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 2:14 ↩
  50. 50. 2 Peter 3:16 2 Pet 3:2 ↩
  51. 51. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 3:1 ↩
  52. 52. 2 Peter 3:17 1 Cor 10:12 ↩
  53. 53. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 2:18 ↩
  54. 54. 2 Peter 3:17 Or disgraceful ↩
  55. 55. 2 Peter 3:17 2 Pet 2:7 ↩
  56. 56. 2 Peter 3:17 Rev 2:5 ↩
  57. 57. 2 Peter 3:17 Or firm hold ↩
  58. 58. 2 Peter 3:18 2 Pet 1:2 ↩
  59. 59. 2 Peter 3:18 2 Pet 1:11; 2:20 ↩
  60. 60. 2 Peter 3:18 Rom 11:36; 2 Tim 4:18; Rev 1:6 ↩

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