2 Peter 3:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Ps 90:4 : 4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;

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  • 2 Pet 3:9-15
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    82%

    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?

    13But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

    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.

    15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;

  • 2 Pet 3:3-7
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    77%

    3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

    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;

    6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

    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.

  • Ps 90:4
    76%

    4For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

  • 1 Thess 5:1-2
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    72%

    1But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.

    2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

  • Jude 1:17
    71%

    17But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Zeph 1:14-15
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    70%

    14The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly.

    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  • Jas 5:7-8
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    7Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

    8Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

  • Luke 17:30
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    30after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

  • Matt 24:37
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    37And as [were] the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

  • Heb 10:37
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    37For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17Ye therefore, beloved, knowing [these things] beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

  • Mark 13:33
    68%

    33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

  • 2 Tim 3:1
    68%

    1But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.

  • Mal 4:1
    68%

    1For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Mark 13:31
    67%

    31Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

  • Zech 14:7
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    7but it shall be one day which is known unto Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.

  • 1 Pet 1:25
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    25But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.

  • Heb 4:7
    67%

    7he again defineth a certain day, To-day, saying in David so long a time afterward (even as hath been said before), To-day if ye shall hear his voice, Harden not your hearts.

  • 2 Cor 4:18
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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.

  • 2 Pet 2:9
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    9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

  • Hab 2:3
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    3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  • Job 8:9
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    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

  • Isa 13:9
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    9Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

  • Matt 24:42
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    42Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

  • Luke 21:33
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    33Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

  • Eccl 1:4
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    4One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.

  • Matt 24:39
    66%

    39and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

  • 2 Pet 1:19
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    19And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

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    10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

  • 2 Thess 2:3
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    3let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be], except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

  • Hos 6:2
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    2After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.

  • Joel 1:15
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    15Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

  • Heb 13:8
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    8Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and to-day, [yea] and for ever.

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    12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you: