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This second epistle I write to you, beloved; in both which I stir up your pure minds |
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that ye should remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.
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Knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, after their own lusts |
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and saying, Where is the promise of His Coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, from the beginning of creation, everything remains the same. |
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Willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: |
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world that then was, being overflowed with water. |
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But the heavens and the earth, by the same word, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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One thing that should not be hidden from you, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
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Lord is not slack [] of promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. |
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But the day of the Lord as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a noise, and the elements with intense heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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If so everything is dissolved, what manner of persons ought to be in holy conduct and godliness, |
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looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens will be dissolved, and the elements will melt? |
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Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. |
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So, beloved, seeing this, potschites appear before him unspotted and blameless in the world; |
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and longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, |
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as he says about this in all his letters, in which are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, is converted as also the other scriptures. |
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So, beloved, being preceded by about this, take heed that you do not get carried away by error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness, |
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen. |
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