2 Peter 3:15
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
The longsuffering of the Lord is salvation, for He delays judgment to give time and opportunity for people to repent and be saved rather than perish, and this delay is not a failure to keep His promise. To account that patience as salvation is to go forward and not stand still, fearing God and acknowledging His power both to create swiftly and to destroy swiftly. Paul also wrote to the same readers about these matters according to the wisdom given to him.
Some things in Paul's letters are hard to be understood, and uninstructed and unstable people twist them, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own ruin, so amid last-day warnings there is need for earnest and humble study of Scripture instead of misinterpreting or mutilating it. Believers are warned to remain firm and steadfast rather than be led astray. The chapter surrounding the verse warns concerning the last days and foretells the wickedness, abominations, and crimes that would prevail then, and the present condition of the world fulfills those predictions.
The chapter holds forth Bible truth as alone worth living for, upholding God and His glory against any pleasing sophistry of human wisdom. The coming day of the Lord will dissolve the heavens and the earth by fire even more completely than the great fires of Chicago and London, which no human power or invention could stop and which stand as calls to repentance. In light of Christ's return believers are to live diligently in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God and looking for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness, to be found of Him in peace and morally clean and blameless, living in humility and prayer.