2 Peter 3:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

But the heauens and earth, which are nowe, are kept by the same word in store, and reserued vnto fire against the day of condemnation, and of the destruction of vngodly men.

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  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the night, in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noyse, and the elements shall melt with heate, and the earth with the workes that are therein, shalbe burnt vp.
  • 2 Pet 3:12 : 12 Looking for, and hasting vnto the comming of that day of God, by the which the heauens being on fire, shall be dissolued, and the elements shall melt with heate?
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heauen and earth shall passe away: but my wordes shall not passe away.
  • Rev 21:1 : 1 And I sawe a newe heauen, and a newe earth: for the first heauen, & the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lorde knoweth to deliuer the godly out of tentation, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement vnder punishment.
  • Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shal he say vnto them on ye left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuill and his angels.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift vp your eyes to the heauens, and looke vpon the earth beneath: for the heauens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall waxe olde like a garment, and they that dwell therein, shall perish in like maner: but my saluation shall be for euer, and my righteousnesse shall not bee abolished.
  • 2 Thess 1:7-8 : 7 And to you which are troubled, rest with vs, when the Lorde Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mightie Angels, 8 In flaming fire, rendring vengeance vnto them, that doe not know God, and which obey not vnto the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ,
  • 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 Let no man deceiue you by any meanes: for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that that man of sinne be disclosed, euen the sonne of perdition,
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, & a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.
  • Ps 102:26 : 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
  • 1 John 4:17 : 17 Herein is that loue perfect in vs, that we should haue boldnes in the day of iudgement: for as he is, euen so are we in this world.
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 As Sodom and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which in like maner as they did, committed fornication, and followed strange flesh, are set foorth for an ensample, and suffer the vengeance of eternall fire.
  • Rev 17:8 : 8 The beast that thou hast seene, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomles pit, and shall goe into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth, shall wonder (whose names are not written in the booke of life from the foundation of ye world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
  • Rev 17:11 : 11 And the beast that was, and is not, is euen the eight, and is one of the seuen, and shall goe into destruction.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and one that sate on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heauen, and their place was no more found.
  • Zeph 3:8 : 8 Therefore wait ye vpon me, saith the Lord, vntill the day that I rise vp to the praye: for I am determined to gather the nations, and that I will assemble the kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation, euen all my fierce wrath: for all the earth shall be deuoured with the fire of my ielousie.
  • Matt 10:15 : 15 Truely I say vnto you, it shall be easier for them of the lande of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of iudgement, then for that citie.
  • Matt 11:22 : 22 But I say to you, It shalbe easier for Tyrus and Sidon at the day of iudgement, then for you.
  • Matt 11:24 : 24 But I say vnto you, that it shall be easier for them of the land of Sodom in the day of iudgement, then for thee.
  • Matt 12:36 : 36 But I say vnto you, that of euery idle word that men shall speake, they shall giue account thereof at the day of iudgement.
  • Mark 6:11 : 11 And whosoeuer shall not receiue you, nor heare you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust that is vnder your feete, for a witnes vnto them. Verely I say vnto you, It shalbe easier for Sodom, or Gomorrha at the day of iudgement, then for that citie.
  • Rom 2:5 : 5 But thou, after thine hardnesse, and heart that canot repent, heapest vp as a treasure vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath, and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God,
  • Phil 1:28 : 28 And in nothing feare your aduersaries, which is to them a token of perdition, and to you of saluation, and that of God.

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  • 2 Pet 3:4-6
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    4 And say, Where is the promes of his coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.

    5 For this they willingly know not, that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God.

    6 Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.

  • 2 Pet 3:8-13
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    8 Dearely beloued, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lorde, as a thousande yeeres, and a thousande yeeres as one day.

    9 The Lord of that promes is not slacke (as some men count slackenesse) but is pacient toward vs, and would haue no man to perish, but would all men to come to repentance.

    10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the night, in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noyse, and the elements shall melt with heate, and the earth with the workes that are therein, shalbe burnt vp.

    11 Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,

    12 Looking for, and hasting vnto the comming of that day of God, by the which the heauens being on fire, shall be dissolued, and the elements shall melt with heate?

    13 But wee looke for newe heauens, and a newe earth, according to his promes, wherein dwelleth righteousnesse.

  • 2 Pet 2:3-6
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    3 And through couetousnes shall they with fained words make marchandise of you, whose condemnation long since resteth not, and their destruction slumbreth not.

    4 For if God spared not the Angels that had sinned, but cast them downe into hell, and deliuered them into chaines of darkenes, to be kept vnto damnation:

    5 Neither hath spared the olde worlde, but saued Noe the eight person a preacher of righteousnesse, and brought in the flood vpon the world of the vngodly,

    6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrhe into ashes, condemned them and ouerthrewe them, and made them an ensample vnto them that after should liue vngodly,

  • Jude 1:4-7
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    4 For there are certaine men crept in, which were before of olde ordeined to this condemnation: vngodly men they are which turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse, and denie God the onely Lord, and our Lord Iesus Christ.

    5 I wil therfore put you in remebrance, forasmuch as ye once knew this, how that the Lord, after that he had deliuered the people out of Egypt, destroied them afterward which beleeued not.

    6 The Angels also which kept not their first estate, but left their owne habitation, hee hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse vnto the iudgement of the great day.

    7 As Sodom and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which in like maner as they did, committed fornication, and followed strange flesh, are set foorth for an ensample, and suffer the vengeance of eternall fire.

  • 2 Pet 2:9
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    9 The Lorde knoweth to deliuer the godly out of tentation, and to reserue the vniust vnto the day of iudgement vnder punishment.

  • Jude 1:15
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    15 To giue iudgement against al men, and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deeds, which they haue vngodly committed, and of all their cruel speakings, which wicked sinners haue spoken against him.

  • Luke 17:29-30
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    29 But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all.

    30 After these ensamples shall it be in the day when the Sonne of man is reueiled.

  • Heb 10:27
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    27 But a fearefull looking for of iudgement, and violent fire, which shall deuoure the aduersaries.

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8 In flaming fire, rendring vengeance vnto them, that doe not know God, and which obey not vnto the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ,

    9 Which shall be punished with euerlasting perdition, from the presence of the Lord, & from the glory of his power,

  • Rom 1:18
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    18 For the wrath of God is reueiled from heauen against all vngodlinesse, and vnrighteousnesse of men, which withhold the trueth in vnrighteousnesse.

  • Jude 1:13
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    13 They are the raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame: they are wandring starres, to whome is reserued the blackenesse of darkenesse for euer.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5 But thou, after thine hardnesse, and heart that canot repent, heapest vp as a treasure vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath, and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God,

  • Isa 13:9
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    9 Beholde, the day of the Lorde commeth, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land wast: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.

  • Job 21:30
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    30 But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • 1 Pet 3:20
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    20 Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of Noe, while the Arke was preparing, wherein fewe, that is, eight soules were saued in the water.

  • Mal 4:1
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    1 For behold, the day commeth that shall burne as an ouen, and all the proude, yea, and all that doe wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that commeth, shall burne them vp, sayeth the Lorde of hostes, and shall leaue them neither roote nor branche.

  • Isa 24:6
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    6 Therefore hath the curse deuoured the earth, and the inhabitantes thereof are desolate. Wherefore the inhabitants of the land are burned vp, and fewe men are left.

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heauinesse, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of obscuritie and darkenesse, a day of cloudes and blackenesse,

  • Matt 24:37
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    37 But as the dayes of Noe were, so likewise shall the coming of the Sonne of man be.

  • Luke 21:33
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    33 Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my wordes shall not passe away.

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5 The mountaines tremble for him, and the hilles melt, & the earth is burnt at his sight, yea, the worlde, and all that dwell therein.

    6 Who can stande before his wrath? Or who can abide in the fiercenesse of his wrath? His wrath is powred out like fire, and the rockes are broken by him.

  • Ps 11:6
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    6 Vpon the wicked he shal raine snares, fire, and brimstone, and stormie tempest: this is the porcion of their cup.

  • Gen 7:4
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    4 For seuen dayes hence I will cause it raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and all the substance that I haue made, will I destroy from off the earth.

  • Mark 13:31
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    31 Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my woordes shall not passe away.

  • Heb 12:29
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    29 For euen our God is a consuming fire.

  • 2 Pet 2:17
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    17 These are welles without water, and cloudes caried about with a tempest, to whome the blacke darkenes is reserued for euer.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18 For wickednesse burneth as a fire: it deuoureth the briers and the thornes and will kindle in the thicke places of the forest: and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.

  • Ps 1:6
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    6 For the Lorde knoweth the way of the righteous, & the way of the wicked shal perish.

  • Matt 24:35
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    35 Heauen and earth shall passe away: but my wordes shall not passe away.

  • Gen 7:12
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    12 And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

  • Job 20:27
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    27 The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.

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    11 God iudgeth the righteous, and him that contemneth God euery day.