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Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. Therefore,
beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him
in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord as
salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom
given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in
them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which
the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the
Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved,
knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away
by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, but
grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity.
Amen.
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