But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the sameword are kept in store, reserveduntofireagainst the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
The Lord is not slackconcerning his promise, as some men countslackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willingthat any shouldperish, but that all shouldcome to repentance.
But the day of the Lordwillcome as a thief in the night; in the which the heavensshallpassawaywith a greatnoise, and the elementsshallmeltwithferventheat, the earthalso and the worksthat are thereinshall be burned up.
Looking for and hastingunto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavensbeing on fireshall be dissolved, and the elementsshallmeltwithferventheat?
And accountthat the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our belovedbrotherPaulalsoaccording to the wisdomgivenunto him hathwrittenunto you;
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of thesethings; in which are somethingshard to be understood, whichtheythat are unlearned and unstablewrest, as they do also the otherscriptures, untotheir own destruction.