²⁹ What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short.^(A) From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

¹¹ These things happened to them as examples^(A) and were written down as warnings for us,^(B) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^(C)

⁸ You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming^(A) is near.^(B)

⁷ The end of all things is near.^(A) Therefore be alert and of sober mind^(B) so that you may pray.

⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise,^(A) as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient^(B) with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.^(C)

¹¹ Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives

Warnings Against Denying the Son

¹⁸ Dear children, this is the last hour;^(A) and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming,^(B) even now many antichrists have come.^(C) This is how we know it is the last hour.

³ Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it,^(A) because the time is near.^(B)

¹⁰ Then he told me, “Do not seal up^(A) the words of the prophecy of this scroll,^(B) because the time is near.^(C)