1. This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you; through them by way of reminder I am trying to stir up your sincere disposition,
2. to recall the words previously spoken by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and savior through your apostles.
3. Know this first of all, that in the last days scoffers will come [to] scoff, living according to their own desires
4. and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? From the time when our ancestors fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation.”
5. They deliberately ignore the fact that the heavens existed of old and earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God;
6. through these the world that then existed was destroyed, deluged with water.
7. The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless.
8. But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.
9. The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard “delay,” but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.