Your emphasis was that this ‘you’ in ‘patient towards you’ refers to the Christians who are the elect of God[/QUOTE].
If you worked through what I posted you will see it.
No need to go all over the place to see this...it is right here;
You claimed there was not two distinct groups spoken of,
2]It doesn't irreversibly separate us into two categories of people.
what I posted shows it....i will make it even more clear...
.elect believers in red,
ungodly reprobates in blue.
2 Peter 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 This second epistle,
beloved, I now write
unto you; in both which I stir up
your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this
they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby
the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished:
7 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 ungodly men.
8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless
we, according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that
ye look for such things,
be diligent
that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
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;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood,
which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing y
e know these things before, beware
lest ye also, being led away with
the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Notice it goes back and forth contrasting between the beloved elect, and the wicked....you said it does not divide between two groups??? care to look again?
T
