2nd Peter chapter 3 verses 1 through 10.

This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved,

and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder.

But you should remember the predictions of the Holy Profits and the commandments of the Lord and Savior through your Apostles.

First of all, you must understand this, that scoppers will come in the last days with scing, following their own passions and saying,

where is the promise of his coming?

For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.

They deliberately ignore this fact that by the word of God, Heavens existed long ago and an earth formed out of water and by

means of water through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and

perished but by the same word was delugged with water and perished.

But by the same word, the heavens and the earth that now exist

have been stored up for fire,

being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but as forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish,

but that all should reach repentance.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise,

and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.

In the second chapter of this letter,

Peter has given us a very graphic second chapter of this letter.

Peter has given us a very graphic description

of the sexual licentiousness of the false teachers,

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