\subsection{II Peter 3}
\VS{1} This second letter, agape-beloved, I write to you, in [both of] which I aroused your 
sincere minds in reminder 
\VS{2} of the words spoken beforehand by the holy 
prophets and the commandment of the Lord and savior from your apostles, 
\VS{3} knowing this first, that there will come in the last days mockers in 
mockery proceeding according to their own lusts, 
\VS{4} and saying, Where is 
the promise of his coming? For since the fathers slept, everything continues 
as [it was] from [the] beginning of creation. 
\VS{5} For this willingly escapes their 
notice, that by the word of God were the heavens of old and the earth
standing out of the water and in the water, 
\VS{6} by which the world [that] then 
[was] destroyed having been deluged, 
\VS{7} but the heavens and the earth 
[which] now are stored up by the same word, being kept for fire in the day of 
judgment and destruction of impious men. 
\VS{8} But let\fnImperative{} 
this [thing] not be escaping your notice, agape-beloved, that one day with [the] Lord 
[is] as [a] thousand years and [a] thousand years as one day. 
\VS{9} The Lord is not 
slow concerning [his] promise, as some consider slowness, but is long-suffering 
towards us, not intending any to perish, but all to reach repentance. 
\VS{10} But [the] day of [the] Lord will come as [a] thief, in which the heavens will 
pass away with-a-roar\footnote{or ``with great suddenness''}, and [the] elements 
will be destroyed, having been burnt up, and the earth and its works will be 
found. 
\VS{11} [so], all these [things] being thus destroyed, what sort of [persons] must you be 
in holy manner of life and piety, 
\VS{12} awaiting and hastening the coming 
of the day of God, in which [the] heavens being set on fire will be destroyed and 
the elements being burnt will be melted? 
\VS{13} So we await [the] new heavens 
and [the] new earth according to his promise, in which justice dwells. 
\VS{14} Therefore, agape-beloved, awaiting these [things], be earnest to be found spotless and blameless by him in peace, 
\VS{15} and consider [that] the long-suffering of 
our Lord [is] salvation, just as our agape-beloved brother Paul has written to 
you according to the knowledge given to him, 
\VS{16} as also in all his 
letters, speaking in them concerning these [things] in which are some [things] hard to 
understand, which the unlearned and unstable turn, as also the rest of the 
scriptures to their own destruction. 
\VS{17} You therefore, agape-beloved, 
knowing [these things] beforehand, be being on guard lest having been carried away with 
the deception you fall away from your own steadfastness. 
\VS{18} But be 
increasing in [the] grace and knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. To 
him [be] glory both now and in the eternal day.
