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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_peter/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Day of the Lord Is Coming</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is my second letter to you, dear friends, and in both of them I have tried to stimulate your wholesome thinking and refresh your memory. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I want you to remember what the holy prophets said long ago and what our Lord and Savior commanded through your apostles.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of Scripture. And this will result in their destruction.</p><p class="hdg">Peter’s Final Words</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You already know these things, dear friends. So be on guard; then you will not be carried away by the errors of these wicked people and lose your own secure footing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_peter/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.</p><p class="reg">All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:10 </span><span class="ft">Other manuscripts read </span><span class="it">will be burned up;</span><span class="ft"> one early manuscript reads </span><span class="it">will be found destroyed.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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