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|2 Pedro 3:1| My dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to you, trying to awaken in you by my reminders an unclouded understanding.
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|2 Pedro 3:2| Remember what was said in the past by the holy prophets and the command of the Lord and Saviour given by your apostles.
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|2 Pedro 3:3| First of all, do not forget that in the final days there will come sarcastic scoffers whose life is ruled by their passions.
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|2 Pedro 3:4| 'What has happened to the promise of his coming?' they will say, 'Since our Fathers died everything has gone on just as it has since the beginning of creation!'
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|2 Pedro 3:5| They deliberately ignore the fact that long ago there were the heavens and the earth, formed out of water and through water by the Word of God,
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|2 Pedro 3:6| and that it was through these same factors that the world of those days was destroyed by the floodwaters.
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|2 Pedro 3:7| It is the same Word which is reserving the present heavens and earth for fire, keeping them till the Day of Judgement and of the destruction of sinners.
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|2 Pedro 3:8| But there is one thing, my dear friends, that you must never forget: that with the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
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|2 Pedro 3:9| The Lord is not being slow in carrying out his promises, as some people think he is; rather is he being patient with you, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to repentance.
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|2 Pedro 3:10| The Day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then with a roar the sky will vanish, the elements will catch fire and melt away, the earth and all that it contains will be burned up.
