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2 Peter

3:8

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Day of the Lord

8 But this one thing be not ignorant of, my dearest, that one day with our Lord is as a thousand years, & a thousand years as one day.

9 Our Lord slacketh not his promise, as some do esteem it: but he doth patiently for you, not willing that any perish, but that all return to penance.

10 And the day of our Lord shall come as a thief, in the which the Heavens shall pass with great violence, but the elements shall be resolved with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt.

11 Therefore whereas all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of men ought you to be in holy conversations and godlinesses,

12 expecting and hasting unto the coming of the day of our Lord, by which the Heavens burning shall be resolved, and the elements shall melt with the heat of fire?

13 But we expect new Heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice inhabiteth.