彼得后书3:8-13
8亲爱的弟兄啊，有一件事你们不可忘记，就是主看一日如千年，千年如一日。9主所应许的尚未成就，有人以为他是耽延，其实不是耽延，乃是宽容你们，不愿有一人沉沦，乃愿人人都悔改。10但主的日子要像贼来到一样。那日天必大有响声废去，有形质的都要被烈火销化。地和其上的物都要烧尽了。11这一切既然都要如此销化，你们为人该当怎样圣洁，怎样敬虔，12切切仰望神的日子来到。在那日天被火烧就销化了，有形质的都要被烈火熔化。13但我们照他的应许，盼望新天新地，有义居在其中。
8But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. 9The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. 10But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.#3:10 Other manuscripts read will be burned up; one early manuscript reads will be found destroyed. 11Since everything around us is going to be destroyed like this, what holy and godly lives you should live, 12looking forward to the day of God and hurrying it along. On that day, he will set the heavens on fire, and the elements will melt away in the flames. 13But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
