2 Peter 3

¹This lo the second epistle I write to you, my dearest, in which I stir up by admonition your sincere mind:

²that you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy Prophets, and of your Apostles, of the precepts of our Lord and Saviour.

³Knowing this first, that in the last days shall come mockers in deceit, walking according to their own concupiscences,

⁴saying, Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things do so persevere from the beginning of creature.

⁵For they are willfully ignorant of this, that the Heavens were before, and the earth, out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God:

⁶by the which, that world then, being overflowed with water perished.

⁷But the Heavens which now are, and the earth, are by the same word kept in store, reserved to fire unto the day of judgement and of the perdition of the impious men.

⁸But this one thing be not ignorant of, my dearest, that one day with our Lord is as a thousand years, & a thousand years as one day.

⁹Our Lord slacketh not his promise, as some do esteem it: but he doth patiently for you, not willing that any perish, but that all return to penance.

¹⁰And the day of our Lord shall come as a thief, in the which the Heavens shall pass with great violence, but the elements shall be resolved with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt.

¹¹Therefore whereas all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of men ought you to be in holy conversations and godlinesses,

¹²expecting and hasting unto the coming of the day of our Lord, by which the Heavens burning shall be resolved, and the elements shall melt with the heat of fire?

¹³But we expect new Heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice inhabiteth.

¹⁴For the which cause, my dearest, expecting these things, labour earnestly to be found immaculate and unspotted to him in peace:

¹⁵and the longanimity of our Lord, do ye account salvation, as also our most dear brother Paul according to the wisdom given him hath written to you:

¹⁶as also in all epistles speaking in them of these things; in the which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable deprave, as also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own perdition.

¹⁷You therefore, brethren, fore-knowing, take heed lest led aside by the error of the unwise you fall away from your own steadfastness.

¹⁸But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.