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Purpose of This Letter
1Beloved, this is now the secondletter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mindby way of a reminder, 2to remember the words spokenbeforehand by the holy prophetsand the commandment of the Lordand Savior spoken by your apostles.
The Coming Day of the Lord
3Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God theheavens existed long ago and theearth was formed out of water and by water, 6through which the worldat that time was destroyed by being flooded with water. 7But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.
8But do not let this one factescape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousandyears like one day. 9The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but ispatient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
A New Heaven and Earth
10But the day of the Lord will comelike a thief, in which the heavenswill pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed withintense heat, and the earth and its works will be discovered.
11Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holyconduct and godliness, 12lookingfor and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of whichthe heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will meltwith intense heat! 13But accordingto His promise we are looking fornew heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
14Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blamelessby Him, at peace, 15and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brotherPaul, according to the wisdomgiven him, wrote to you, 16as alsoin all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard tounderstand, which the untaughtand unstable distort, as they doalso the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard sothat you are not carried away by the error of [e]unscrupulous peopleand lose your own firmcommitment, 18but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lordand Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
1Beloved, this is now the secondletter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mindby way of a reminder, 2to remember the words spokenbeforehand by the holy prophetsand the commandment of the Lordand Savior spoken by your apostles.
The Coming Day of the Lord
3Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God theheavens existed long ago and theearth was formed out of water and by water, 6through which the worldat that time was destroyed by being flooded with water. 7But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.
8But do not let this one factescape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousandyears like one day. 9The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but ispatient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
A New Heaven and Earth
10But the day of the Lord will comelike a thief, in which the heavenswill pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed withintense heat, and the earth and its works will be discovered.
11Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holyconduct and godliness, 12lookingfor and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of whichthe heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will meltwith intense heat! 13But accordingto His promise we are looking fornew heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
14Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found spotless and blamelessby Him, at peace, 15and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brotherPaul, according to the wisdomgiven him, wrote to you, 16as alsoin all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard tounderstand, which the untaughtand unstable distort, as they doalso the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard sothat you are not carried away by the error of [e]unscrupulous peopleand lose your own firmcommitment, 18but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lordand Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
