Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them.

They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water.

The Lord is not slow with what he promises, according to certain people's idea of slowness; no, he is longsuffering for your sake, he does not wish any to perish but all to betake them to repentance.

you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt!

speaking of this as he has done in all his letters ??letters containing some knotty points, which ignorant and unsteady souls twist (as they do the rest of the scriptures) to their own destruction.