2 Peter 3:1-9 ▼

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

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

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."

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:

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

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.

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.

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.