And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

And they will exploit you in greed with fabricated words, whose judgment is not idle for long, and their destruction will not slumber.

For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

for as long as that upright man was living among them, his upright soul, day and night, was always being tortured by what he saw and heard in their lawless actions --

The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

[while you earnestly] look for and await the coming of the day of God. For on this day the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the [material] elements will melt with intense heat!