⁹ The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he^[a] does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance. ¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed by^[b] being burned up, and the earth and the deeds done on it will be disclosed. ¹¹ Because^[c] all these things are being destroyed in this way, what sort of people must you be in holy behavior and godliness,