2 Peter 3

¹This seconde Epistle I nowe write vnto you, beloued, wherewith I stirre vp, and warne your pure mindes,

²To call to remembrance the wordes, which were tolde before of the holy Prophetes, and also the commandement of vs the Apostles of the Lord and Sauiour.

³This first vnderstande, that there shall come in the last dayes, mockers, which wil walke after their lustes,

⁴And say, Where is the promise of his comming? for since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.

⁵For this they willingly know not, that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God.

⁶Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.

⁷But the heauens and earth, which are nowe, are kept by the same word in store, and reserued vnto fire against the day of condemnation, and of the destruction of vngodly men.

⁸Dearely beloued, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord, as a thousande yeeres, and a thousande yeeres as one day.

⁹The Lord of that promise is not slacke (as some men count slackenesse) but is pacient toward vs, and would haue no man to perish, but would all men to come to repentance.

¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the night, in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noyse, and the elements shall melt with heate, and the earth with the workes that are therein, shalbe burnt vp.

¹¹Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,