you who expect and hasten the advent of the Day of God, which dissolves the heavens in fire and makes the stars blaze and melt!
The day of the Lord will come like a thief, when the heavens will vanish with crackling roar, the stars will be set ablaze and melt, the earth and all its works will disappear.
but the present heavens and earth are treasured up by the same word for fire, reserved for the day when the impious are doomed and destroyed.
awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,
so keeping yourselves within the love of God and waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that ends in life eternal.
of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.
For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.
I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."
asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation."
Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,