3This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,G5026G1208G1992G27G1125G2235G1125G5213G1722G3739G1326G5216G1506G1271G1722G52802that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,G3415G4487G4280G5259G40G4396G2532G1785G2257G652G2962G2532G49903knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.G1097G5124G4412G3754G2064G1909G2078G2250G1703G4198G2596G846G2398G19394They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation."G2532G3004G4226G2076G1860G846G3952G1063G575G3739G3962G2837G3956G3779G1265G575G746G29375For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,G1063G5124G846G2309G2990G3754G3056G2316G3772G2258G1597G2532G1093G4921G1537G5204G2532G1223G52046and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.G1223G3739G2889G5119G2626G5204G6227But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.G1161G3772G2532G1093G3568G846G3056G1526G2343G5083G4442G1519G2250G2920G2532G684G765G4448But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.G1161G27G2990G3361G5209G2990G1520G5124G3754G3391G2250G3844G2962G5613G5507G2094G2532G5507G2094G5613G3391G22509The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.G2962G1019G3756G1019G1860G5613G5100G2233G1022G235G3114G1519G2248G3361G1014G5100G622G235G3956G5562G1519G334110But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.G1161G2250G2962G2240G5613G2812G1722G3571G1722G3739G3772G3928G4500G1161G4747G3089G2741G1093G2532G2532G2041G1722G846G261811Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,G3767G3956G5130G3089G4217G1163G5209G5225G1722G40G391G2532G215012waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!G4328G2532G4692G3952G2250G2316G1223G3739G3772G4448G3089G2532G4747G5080G274113But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.G1161G4328G2596G846G1862G4328G2537G3772G2532G2537G1093G1722G3739G2730G1343
Final Words
14Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.G1352G27G4328G5023G4704G2147G846G1722G1515G784G2532G29815And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,G2532G2233G3115G2257G2962G4991G2531G2257G27G80G3972G2532G2596G4678G1325G846G1125G521316as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.G5613G2532G1722G3956G1992G2980G1722G846G4012G5130G1722G3739G2076G5100G1425G3739G261G2532G793G4761G5613G2532G3062G1124G4314G846G2398G68417You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.G5210G3767G27G4267G5442G3363G1601G4879G4106G113G1601G2398G474018But 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.G1161G837G1722G5485G2532G1108G2257G2962G2532G4990G2424G5547G846G1391G2532G3568G2532G1519G165G2250G281