Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
Then. So 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate; but B C substitute ( houtos (G3778)) 'thus' for "then:" a happy refutation of the 'thus' of the scoffers, 2 Peter 3:4, "AS they were."
Shall be, х luomenoon (G3089)] - 'are being (in God's appointment, soon to be fulfilled) dissolve;' implying the certainly, as though actually present.
What manner of persons - how watchful, prayerful, zealous! To be - not mere existence х einai (G1511)], but х huparchein (G5225)] a sate in which one is supposed to be (Tittmann). What men ye ought to be found, when the event comes! This is "the holy commandment" (2 Peter 3:2; 2 Peter 2:21).
Conversation and godliness, х anastrofais (G391), eusebeiais (G2150)] - behaviours (toward men), pieties (toward God), in their manifold manifestations.