waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah.

Howl, O gate! cry, O city! thou, Philistia, art wholly dissolved; for there cometh from the north a smoke, and none remaineth apart in his gatherings of troops.

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is completely dissolved, the earth is violently moved.

And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered fruit from the fig-tree.

What

But the men were astonished, saying, What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?

For our glad tidings were not with you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance; even as ye know what we were among you for your sakes:

for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.

In all

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth his way will I shew the salvation of God.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Let your conversation be without love of money, satisfied with your present circumstances; for he has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;

but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation;

having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that as to that in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through your good works, themselves witnessing them, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Godliness

As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue,

And confessedly the mystery of piety is great. God has been manifested in flesh, has been justified in the Spirit, has appeared to angels, has been preached among the nations, has been believed on in the world, has been received up in glory.

If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to piety,

General references

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his adversaries round about.

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; the simple pass on, and are punished.