The Coming Judgment
1This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding you,+ 2to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,+ 3this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,+ 4and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'+ 5for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,+ 6through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;+ 7and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.+The Day of the Lord
Zephaniah 1:7–18; Malachi 4:1–6; 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11
8And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;+ 9the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,+ 10and it will come--the day of the Lord--as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.+ 11All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?+ 12waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;+ 13and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;+