2 Peter 3:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.

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  • Isa 65:17 : 17 For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
  • Rev 21:1 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.
  • Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.
  • Isa 60:21 : 21 Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

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