Thematic Bible

2 Peter 3:1

This, a second letter, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your sincere mind by way of remembrance;

2 Peter 3:2

that ye remember the words spoken before by holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Savior by your apostles.

2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers with scoffing, walking after their own desires,

2 Peter 3:4

and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? for, from the day the fathers fell asleep, all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation."

2 Peter 3:5

For this escapes them willingly, that there were heavens of old, and an earth set together out of water, and through water, by the word of God:

2 Peter 3:6

through which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;

2 Peter 3:7

but the present heavens and the earth, by the same word, have been stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, let not this one thing escape you, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow respecting the promise, as some account slowness; but He is long-suffering toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, being intensely hot, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works therein shall be burned up.

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing, therefore, that all these things are thus to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conduct and godliness,

2 Peter 3:12

looking for, and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens, being on fire, will be dissolved; and the elements, being intensely hot, shall melt!

2 Peter 3:13

But, according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness,

2 Peter 3:14

Wherefore, beloved, since ye are looking for these things, give diligence that ye be found in peace, without spot and blameless in His sight.

2 Peter 3:15

And account the long-suffering of our Lord salvation; as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you;

2 Peter 3:16

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

2 Peter 3:17

Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, be on your guard, lest, being carried away with error of the wicked, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.