9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is ^hpatient toward you,^{1 i}not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come ^jlike a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies² will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.³

15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as ⁿour beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,