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2 Peter 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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God’s Promise Is Not Slack
The Coming Day of the Lord
(Gen. 6:5—8:22 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:1 - Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder),
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:2 - that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us,[fn] the apostles of the Lord and Savior,
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:3 - knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:4 - and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:5 - For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:6 - by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:7 - But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:8 - But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:9 - The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,[fn] not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
The Day of the Lord
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:11 - Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:12 - looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:13 - Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Be Steadfast
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:14 - Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:15 - and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:16 - as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:17 - You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;
Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:18 - but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text and M-Text read commandment of the apostles of your Lord and Savior or commandment of your apostles of the Lord and Savior.
NU-Text reads you.
NU-Text reads laid bare (literally found).
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