(A)The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise (B)as some count slowness, but (C)is patient toward you,[a] (D)not wishing that any should perish, but (E)that all should reach repentance. 10 But (F)the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then (G)the heavens will pass away with a roar, and (H)the heavenly bodies[b] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.[c]

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, (I)what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:9 Some manuscripts on your account
  2. 2 Peter 3:10 Or elements; also verse 12
  3. 2 Peter 3:10 Greek found; some manuscripts will be burned up

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