8 But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack about his promise, as some regard slackness, but is patient toward us, not wanting any to perish, but all to go forward to repentance.

10 But the day of Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire.

11 Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties,

12 anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot?

13 But we anticipate a new heavens and a new earth according to his promise, in which righteousness dwells.