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2 Peter 3

3 He sheweth the impiety of them which mock at God’s promises. 7 After what sort the end of the world shalbe. 8 That they prepare themselves thereunto. 16 Who they are which abuse the writings of St. Paul, and the rest of the Scriptures. 18 Concluding with eternal thanks to Christ Jesus.
1.This second Epistle I now write unto you, beloved, wherewith aI stirrup, and warn your pure minds,
2.To call to remembrance the words, which were told before of the holie Prophets, and also the commandment of us the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour.
3.*This first understand, that there shall come in the last days, mockers, which will walk after their lusts,
4.And say, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers died, all things continue a like from the beginning of the creation.
5.For this they bwilling know not, that the heavens were of old, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God.
6.Wherefore the cworld that then was, perished, overflowed with the water.
7.But the heavens and earth, which are now, are kept by the same word in store, and reserved unto fire against the day of judgement, and of the destruction of ungodly men.
8.Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord, *as an thousand years, and a thousand year, as one day,
9.The Lord is not slack concerning his promise (as some men count slackness) but is patient toward us, and *dwould have no man to perish, but would all men to come to repentance.
10.*But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth with the works, that are therein, shalbe burnt up.
11.Seeing therefore that all these things must be dissolved, what manner persons ought ye to be in holie conversation and godliness,
12.Looking for, and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, by the which the heavens being on fire, shalbe dissolved, and the elements shall melt with heat?
13.But we look for *new heavens, and a new earth, according to his promise, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14.Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in epeace, without spot and blameless.
15.*And suppose that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given unto him wrote to fyou,
16.As one, that in all his Epistles speaketh of these things: among the which some things are ghard to be understand, which they that are unlearned and unstable, ^pervert, as they do also other Scriptures unto their own destruction.
17.Ye therefore beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own steadfastness.
18.But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: to him be glory both now and for evermore. Amen

Notes

1-a.
For we fall quickly asleep and forget that which we are taught.
3-*.
1 Tim. 4.1, 2 Tim. 3.1, Jude 18
5-b.
He meaneth them which had once professed Christian religion, but became afterward contemners and mockers, as Epicureans and atheists.
6-c.
As touching the beauty thereof, and things which were therein, except them which were in the ark.
8-*.
Psal. 90.4
9-*.
Eze. 33.30, 1 Tim. 2.4
9-d.
He speaketh not here of the secret and eternal counsel of God, whereby he electeth whom it pleaseth him, but of the preaching of the Gospel whereby all are called and bidden to the banquet.
10-*.
Mat. 24.44, 1 Thess. 5.2, Rev. 3.3, and 16.15
13-*.
Isa. 65.17, and 66.22, Rev. 21.1
14-e.
In quite conscience.
15-*.
Rom. 2.4
15-f.
Albeit his epistles were writ to peculiar Churches, yet they contain a general doctrine appertaining to all men.
16-^.
Or, wrest.
16-g.
As no man condemneth the brightness of the sun because his eye is not able to sustain the clearness thereof: so the hardness which we can not some time compass or perfectly understand in the Scriptures, ought not to take away from us the use of the Scriptures.