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11 Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12 looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.

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11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, (A)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 (B)waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and (C)the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are waiting for (D)new heavens and a new earth (E)in which righteousness dwells.

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