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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Peter 3 Mace New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_peter/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_peter/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Mace</a> > 2 Peter 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_peter/2.htm" title="2 Peter 2">◄</a> 2 Peter 3 <a href="../1_john/1.htm" title="1 John 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_peter/3-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Coming Judgment<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jude/1.htm#17">Jude 1:17–23</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is the second letter I now write to you, my brethren, by which I would awaken your sincere attention, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>by admonishing you to be mindful of the predictions of the holy prophets, and of the directions of the apostles of our Lord and Saviour.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Above all things you are to know, that in these last times, impostors will appear, who will abandon themselves to their own sensual passions, whose cry will be, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"where is the promise of his coming? for since our fathers are dead, the state of things is the same it has ever been since the beginning of the world." <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but they are wilfully ignorant, that the heavens were originally form'd by the divine Logos, and likewise the earth, which was separated from the water, and still subsists upon it. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>whence the former world was destroyed by an inundation. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>but the heavens and the earth now existing are kept in store by his Logos, reserv'd for the conflagration of doomsday, when the impious shall be involv'd in perdition.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">The Day of the Lord<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_thessalonians/5.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:1–11</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But there is one thing, my brethren, you ought to be appriz'd of, which is this, that "with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>the Lord does not delay the accomplishment of his promise, as some do imagine, but he waits with patience upon our account, as being unwilling that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>As for that day of the Lord, it will advance like a thief: then the heavens will rush with violence, the boiling elements will be dissolved, and the earth with all its contents, shall be burnt away.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Since then this whole system is to be destroyed, how holy should your conduct be, and how ardent your piety? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>expecting, and vehemently desiring the day of the Lord would come, when the heavens all on fire shall be dissolv'd, and the elements shall melt with intense heat. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As for us, in consequence of his promise, we expect a new heaven, and a new earth, where justice shall reside.<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Final Exhortations<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>since then, my dear brethren, your expectations are such, take care to appear before him, without any defect or blemish, in order to be happy; and be persuaded, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>that the patience of our Lord is for your advantage: as our dear brother Paul, according to the information he receiv'd, has writ to you, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>as it were in all his epistles, where he takes notice of these things: in which there are some passages that are difficult to understand, which the illiterate, and unstable wrest, as they do the rest of the scriptures, to their own ruin. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do you then, my dear brethren, being thus forewarn'd, take care not to be seduc'd by those prophane impostors, and so lose the reward of your constancy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>on the contrary, may you increase in the favour, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! to him be glory both now and for ever. 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