2 Peter 3:9-11

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

⁹ The Lord is not being slow about^[a] the promise as some regard slowness, but He is being patient toward you, not wishing^[b] any to perish, but all to make-room^[c] for repentance. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief— during which the heavens will pass-away with-a-roar, and the elements will be destroyed while burning, and the earth and the works in it will be found^[d]. ¹¹ All these things thus being destroyed, what-kind-of people ought you to be in holy behaviors and acts of godliness,