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for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,</p> <a name="10" id="10"></a><p class="hdg">The Day of the Lord<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../zephaniah/1.htm#7">Zephaniah 1:7-18</a>; <a href="../1_thessalonians/5.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:1-11</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and it will come — the day of the Lord — as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;</p> <p class="hdg">Final Exhortations</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul — according to the wisdom given to him — did write to you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_peter/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him [is] the glory both now, and to the day of the age! 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