¹This now, beloved, is the second letter I am writing to you, in which I am stirring up your pure mind in putting you in remembrance,

²remembering the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior by your sent ones;

³knowing this first, that scoffers will come with scoffing in these last of the days, following according to their own evil desires,

⁴and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? For from the time that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.

⁵Indeed, this is concealed from them willingly, that the heavens were existing long ago, and the earth composed out of water and through water by the word of God,

⁶through means of those waters the world at that time, having been deluged with water, perished.

⁷But now the skies and the earth by the same word are stored up for fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and the destruction of ungodly men.

⁸However, this one thing should not be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

⁹The Lord does not delay the promise, as some esteem slowness; but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but all to come to change of heart.

¹⁰However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, then the elements burning with heat will be dissolved, and the earth and the works in it will not be exposed.

¹¹When all these things are being dissolved in this way, what kind of you ought to be in holy conduct and in godliness,

¹²expecting and hastening the coming of the day of God, through which the heavens being set on fire will be dissolved, and the elements burning with heat are melting?

¹³However, according to his promise we are awaiting new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

¹⁴Therefore, beloved, expecting these things, be diligent to be found by Him in wholeness, without spot and without blemish,

¹⁵and esteem the patience of our Lord as salvation, even as also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him,

¹⁶as also in all the letters, speaking in them concerning these things; among which letters some things are difficult to be understood, which the ignorant and unestablished distort, as also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

¹⁷Therefore, you yourselves, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware that you may not fall from your own steadfastness, having been led away by the error of the lawless,

¹⁸however, grow in favor and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Anointed One. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.