1. This is now, beloved ones, the second letter I write to you, in which I stir up your sincere mind, to remember
2. the words previously spoken by the set-apart prophets, and of the command of the Master and Saviour, spoken by your emissaries,
3. knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last days with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
4. and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of creation.”
5. For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim,
6. through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
7. And the present heavens and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day of judgment and destruction of wicked men.
8. But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9. יהוה is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.