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

¹ THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in which I excite your pure minds by remembrance, ² to remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour, ³ knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world. ⁵ For of this they are willingly ignorant, that the heavens were of old, and the earth was made of water and by water by the word of God, ⁶ by which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, was destroyed. ⁷ But the present heavens and the earth have been preserved by his word, being kept for fire, at the day of the judgment and destruction of wicked men.

⁸ But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow in respect to his promise, as some men account slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a change of mind.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a crash, and the elements be melted with heat, and the earth and the works in it be consumed. ¹¹ All these things therefore being dissolved, what persons ought we to be in holy conduct and piety, ¹² expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens being burnt up will be dissolved and the elements be melted with heat. ¹³ But we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.