Thematic Bible
2 Peter 3:1 (show verse)
This is the second epistle that I now write unto you, my dearly beloved, wherewith I stir up and warn your pure minds,
2 Peter 3:2 (show verse)
to call to remembrance the words which were told before of the holy prophets, and also the commandment of us; the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.
2 Peter 3:3 (show verse)
This first understand: that there shall come in the last days mockers, which will walk after their own lusts
2 Peter 3:4 (show verse)
and say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers died all things continue in the same estate wherein they were at the beginning."
2 Peter 3:5 (show verse)
This they know not - and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God:
2 Peter 3:6 (show verse)
by the which things the world that then was perished, overflowen with the water.
2 Peter 3:7 (show verse)
But the heavens verily and earth which are now, are kept by the same word in store, and reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:8 (show verse)
Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:9 (show verse)
The Lord is not slack to fulfill his promise as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.
2 Peter 3:10 (show verse)
Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn.
2 Peter 3:11 (show verse)
If all these things shall perish, what manner persons ought ye to be in holy conversation, and godliness:
2 Peter 3:12 (show verse)
looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall perish with fire, and the elements shall be consumed with heat.
2 Peter 3:13 (show verse)
Nevertheless, we look for a new heaven, and a new earth, according to his promise, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2 Peter 3:14 (show verse)
Wherefore, dearly beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and undefiled:
2 Peter 3:15 (show verse)
And suppose that the long suffering of the Lord is salvation, even as our dearly beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given unto him, wrote to you,
2 Peter 3:16 (show verse)
yea, almost in every epistle, speaking of such things: among which are many things hard to be understood: which they that are unlearned and unstable pervert, as they do other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2 Peter 3:17 (show verse)
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know it beforehand: Beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness;
2 Peter 3:18 (show verse)
but grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord, and saviour Jesus Christ. To whom be glory both now and forever. Amen. {Here ends the Second General Epistle of Peter}