2 Peter 3:1-13 - The Coming Day Of The Lord

¹ Beloved, this second epistle I now write to you, in which epistles I stir up your sincere mind to remembrance: ² to be mindful of the words before spoken by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour. ³ Knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking after their own lusts, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as at the beginning of the creation. ⁵ But this willfully escapes them, that, by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth subsisting from the water, and by water: ⁶ by which the world that then was, being deluged with water, perished. ⁷ But the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured up, being kept for fire to a day of judgment, and destruction of ungodly men.

⁸ But this one thing, let it not escape you, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord does not delay his promise in the manner some account delaying; but he exercises long-suffering toward us, not desiring that any should perish, but that all should come to reformation.

¹⁰ However, as thief, the day of the Lord will come; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements burning shall be dissolved; and the earth, and the works that are upon it, shall be utterly burned. ¹¹ Seeing, then, all these things shall be dissolved; -what sort of persons ought you to be, in holy behavior and godliness, ¹² expecting and earnestly desiring, the coming of the day of God; in which the heavens being set on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements burning, shall be melted? ¹³ But we, according to his promise, expect new heavens, and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.