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