2 Peter 3:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 through these the world that then existed was destroyed,(A) deluged with water.[a] 7 The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless.(B)
8 [b]But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years[c] and a thousand years like one day.(C)
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- 3:6 Destroyed, deluged with water: cf. 2 Pt 2:5; Gn 7:11–8:2.
- 3:8–10 The scoffers’ objection (2 Pt 3:4) is refuted also by showing that delay of the Lord’s second coming is not a failure to fulfill his word but rather a sign of his patience: God is giving time for repentance before the final judgment (cf. Wis 11:23–26; Ez 18:23; 33:11).
- 3:8 Cf. Ps 90:4.
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