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| This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, | |
| that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior {spoken} by your apostles. | |
| Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with {their} mocking, following after their own lusts, | |
| and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For {ever} since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." | |
| For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God {the} heavens existed long ago and {the} earth was formed out of water and by water, | |
| through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. | |
| But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. | |
| But do not let this one {fact} escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. | |
| The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. | |
| But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. | |
| Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, | |
| looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! | |
| But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. | |
| Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, | |
| and regard the patience of our Lord {as} salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, | |
| as also in all {his} letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as {they do} also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. | |
| You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, | |
| 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. |
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