3:8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, 2 that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day. 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, 3 as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish 4 for any 5 to perish but for all to come to repentance. 6 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, 7 the heavens will disappear 8 with a horrific noise, 9 and the celestial bodies 10 will melt away 11 in a blaze, 12 and the earth and every deed done on it 13 will be laid bare. 14 3:11 Since all these things are to melt away 15 in this manner, 16 what sort of people must we 17 be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness, 18