The Douay-Rheims Audio Bible is a reading of The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version, with Challoner Revisions. Translated from the Latin Vulgate, the Douay-Rheims was the first English translation of the Bible, predating even the King James Version. The New Testament was published in 1582. Narrated by Steve Webb.

The Douay-Rheims Audio Bible

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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2PE.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2PE.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2PE.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2PE.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2PE.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2PE.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2PE.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2PE.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2PE.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2PE.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2PE.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2PE.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2PE.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2PE.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2PE.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2PE.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2PE.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2PE.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2PE.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2PE.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2PE.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2PE.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2PE.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2PE.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2PE.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2PE.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2PE.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.</span></span></div>
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Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:
That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.
Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.
But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance.
But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt up.
Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of people ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness?
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat?
But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.
Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.
And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity. Amen.

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