Thematic Bible
2 Peter 3:1 (show verse)
Dear friends, this [is] already the second letter I am writing to you, in [both of] which I am attempting to stir up your sincere mind by a reminder,
2 Peter 3:2 (show verse)
to remember the words proclaimed beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,
2 Peter 3:3 (show verse)
above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires
2 Peter 3:4 (show verse)
and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For {ever since} the fathers fell asleep, all [things] have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation."
2 Peter 3:5 (show verse)
For [when] they maintain this, it escapes [their] notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God,
2 Peter 3:6 (show verse)
by means of which things the world that existed at that time was destroyed [by] being inundated with water.
2 Peter 3:7 (show verse)
But by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.
2 Peter 3:8 (show verse)
Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your [notice], that one day with the Lord [is] like a thousand years, and a thousand years [is] like one day.
2 Peter 3:9 (show verse)
The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, [because he] does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:10 (show verse)
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed [by] being burned up, and the earth and the deeds [done] on it will be disclosed.
2 Peter 3:11 (show verse)
[Because] all these things are being destroyed in this way, what sort of [people] must you be in holy behavior and godliness,
2 Peter 3:12 (show verse)
[while] waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed [by] being burned up and the celestial bodies will melt [as they] are consumed by heat!
2 Peter 3:13 (show verse)
But according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness resides.
2 Peter 3:14 (show verse)
Therefore, dear friends, [because you] are waiting for these [things], make every effort to be found at peace, spotless and unblemished in him.
2 Peter 3:15 (show verse)
And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom that was given to him,
2 Peter 3:16 (show verse)
as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.
2 Peter 3:17 (show verse)
Therefore, dear friends, [because you] know [this] beforehand, guard yourselves so that you do not lose your own safe position [because you] have been led away by the error of lawless persons.
2 Peter 3:18 (show verse)
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.