2 Peter 3:8

World English Bible (2000)

But don't forget 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 your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

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    9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

    11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

    12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

    13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

    14 Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without blemish and blameless in his sight.

    15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

  • 2 Pet 3:3-7
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    3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

    4 and 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."

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

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

    7 But 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.

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    4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

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    1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

    2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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

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    14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

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    7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

    8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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    17 You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

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    33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

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