The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, read more.Īnd saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles. Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end. He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water He brought water for you out of the rock of flint. “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, read more.Īnd when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
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