1This seconde Epistle I nowe write vnto you, beloued, wherewith I stirre vp, and warne your pure mindes,

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2 Timothy 1:6, 2 Timothy 1:6, 2 Peter 1:12, 2 Peter 1:15, 2 Peter 1:12

2To call to remembrance the wordes, which were tolde before of the holy Prophetes, and also the commandement of vs the Apostles of the Lord and Sauiour.

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Jude 1:17, Jude 1:17, 2 Peter 2:21, Luke 1:70, 2 Peter 2:21

3This first vnderstande, that there shall come in the last dayes, mockers, which wil walke after their lustes,

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Jude 1:18, Jude 1:18, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2, 1 Timothy 4:1

4And say, Where is the promise of his comming? for since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.

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Jeremiah 17:15, Jeremiah 17:15, Malachi 2:17, Malachi 2:17, Jeremiah 5:12

5For this they willingly know not, that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God.

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Hebrews 11:3, Hebrews 11:3, Genesis 1:9, Genesis 1:9, Psalms 24:2

6Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.

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Matthew 24:38, Matthew 24:39, 2 Peter 2:5, Matthew 24:38, Matthew 24:39

7But the heauens and earth, which are nowe, are kept by the same word in store, and reserued vnto fire against the day of condemnation, and of the destruction of vngodly men.

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2 Peter 3:10, 2 Peter 3:10, Isaiah 51:6, Isaiah 51:6, 2 Peter 3:12

8Dearely beloued, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord, as a thousande yeeres, and a thousande yeeres as one day.

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Psalms 90:4, Psalms 90:4, Romans 11:25, Romans 11:25, 1 Corinthians 12:1

9The Lord of that promise is not slacke (as some men count slackenesse) but is pacient toward vs, and would haue no man to perish, but would all men to come to repentance.

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1 Timothy 2:4, 1 Timothy 2:4, Romans 2:4, Romans 2:4, Habakkuk 2:3

10But the day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the night, in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noyse, and the elements shall melt with heate, and the earth with the workes that are therein, shalbe burnt vp.

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Revelation 21:1, Revelation 21:1, Matthew 24:35, Matthew 24:35, 2 Peter 3:7

11Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,

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1 Peter 1:15, 1 Peter 1:15, Philippians 1:27, Philippians 1:27, 1 Peter 2:12

12Looking for, and hasting vnto the comming of that day of God, by the which the heauens being on fire, shall be dissolued, and the elements shall melt with heate?

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2 Peter 3:10, 2 Peter 3:10, Isaiah 34:4, Isaiah 34:4, Micah 1:4

13But wee looke for newe heauens, and a newe earth, according to his promise, wherein dwelleth righteousnesse.

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Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 65:17, Revelation 21:1, Revelation 21:1, Isaiah 66:22

14Wherefore, beloued, seeing that yee looke for such thinges, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blamelesse.

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1 Thessalonians 5:23, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, Philippians 1:10

15And suppose that the long suffering of our Lord is saluation, euen as our beloued brother Paul according to the wisedome giuen vnto him wrote to you,

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Romans 2:4, Romans 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9, 2 Peter 3:9, 1 Timothy 1:16

16As one, that in all his Epistles speaketh of these thinges: among the which some thinges are hard to be vnderstand, which they that are vnlearned and vnstable, wrest, as they do also other Scriptures vnto their owne destruction.

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Matthew 15:6, Matthew 15:6, Hebrews 5:11, Hebrews 5:11, 2 Peter 2:14

17Ye therefore beloued, seeing ye know these thinges before, beware, lest ye be also plucked away with the errour of the wicked, and fall from your owne stedfastnesse.

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Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 3:14, Colossians 2:8, Colossians 2:8, 2 Corinthians 11:13

18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ: to him be glory both now and for euermore. Amen.

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Colossians 1:10, Colossians 1:10, Ephesians 4:15, Ephesians 4:15, 1 Peter 2:2