<t /><p class="bodytext">Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly<n id="1" /> of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle,<n id="1" /> I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,

Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.<n id="1" />p>

Since all these things are to melt away<n id="1" /> in this manner,<n id="2" /> what sort of people must we<n id="3" /> be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">I can pray this because his divine power<n id="1" /> has bestowed on us everything necessary<n id="2" /> for life and godliness through the rich knowledge<n id="3" /> of the one who called<n id="4" /> us by<n id="5" /> his own glory and excellence.

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their<n id="1" /> condemnation pronounced long ago<n id="2" /> is not sitting idly by;<n id="3" /> their<n id="4" /> destruction is not asleep.p>

and saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where is his promised return?<n id="2" /> For ever since<n id="3" /> our ancestors<n id="4" /> died,<n id="5" /> all things have continued as they were<n id="6" /> from the beginning of creation.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice,<n id="1" /> that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise,<n id="1" /> as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish<n id="2" /> for any<n id="3" /> to perish but for all to come to repentance.<n id="4" />