2 Peter 3:13

American Standard Version (1901)

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 65:17 : 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
  • Rev 21:1 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
  • Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
  • Isa 60:21 : 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

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    7but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

    8But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

    9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

    10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

    11Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness,

    12looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.

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    17For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

  • Phil 3:20
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    20For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Titus 2:13
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    13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

  • Heb 13:14
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    14For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after [the city] which is to come.

  • Rev 21:1-2
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    1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.

    2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

  • 2 Pet 3:4-5
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    4and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

    5For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;

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    1For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

    2For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

    3if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

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    2Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

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    4unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

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    18while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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    25But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.

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    19For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.

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    26whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven.

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    29The righteous shall inherit the land, And dwell therein for ever.

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    18But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

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