2 Peter 3:9-12
English Standard Version
9 (A)The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise (B)as some count slowness, but (C)is patient toward you,[a] (D)not wishing that any should perish, but (E)that all should reach repentance. 10 But (F)the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then (G)the heavens will pass away with a roar, and (H)the heavenly bodies[b] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.[c]
11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, (I)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 (J)waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and (K)the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
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- 2 Peter 3:9 Some manuscripts on your account
- 2 Peter 3:10 Or elements; also verse 12
- 2 Peter 3:10 Greek found; some manuscripts will be burned up
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