| 3:1 | Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in [both of] which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), |
| 3:2 | that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, |
| 3:3 | knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, |
| 3:4 | and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of creation." |
| 3:5 | For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, |
| 3:6 | by which the world [that] then existed perished, being flooded with water. |
| 3:7 | But the heavens and the earth [which] are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. |
| 3:8 | But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. |
| 3:9 | The Lord is not slack concerning [His] promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. |
| 3:10 | But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. |
| 3:11 | Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, |
| 3:12 | looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? |
| 3:13 | Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. |
| 3:14 | Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; |
| 3:15 | and consider [that] the longsuffering of our Lord [is] salvationas also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, |
| 3:16 | as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable [people] twist to their own destruction, as [they do] also the rest of the Scriptures. |
| 3:17 | You therefore, beloved, since you know [this] beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; |
| 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. Amen. |
2 Peter 3 - New King James Version
