2 Peter 3
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This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

the heavens.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the …

Psalm 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour …

Psalm 102:26 They shall perish, but you shall endure: yes, all of them shall wax …

Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath: …

Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait you on me, said the LORD, until the day that I rise …

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that …

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose …

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and …

against.

2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to …

Matthew 10:15 Truly I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom …

Matthew 11:22,24 But I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at …

Matthew 12:36 But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they …

Mark 6:11 And whoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when you depart …

1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the …

and perdition.

Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …

Philippians 1:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an …

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, …

1 Timothy 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …

Revelation 17:8,11 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the …

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

the day.

Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be on every one that is proud …

Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction …

Joel 2:1,31 Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: …

Joel 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of …

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the …

1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, …

2 Corinthians 1:14 As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, …

Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their …

as a.

Matthew 24:42,43 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come…

Luke 12:39 And this know, that if the manager of the house had known what hour …

1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as …

Revelation 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, …

Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps …

in the which.

Psalm 102:26 They shall perish, but you shall endure: yes, all of them shall wax …

Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath: …

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by …

Hebrews 1:11,12 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as …

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose …

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and …

the elements.

2 Peter 3:12 Looking for and hastening to the coming of the day of God, wherein …

melt.

Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, …

Psalm 97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence …

Amos 9:5,13 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall …

Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is …

the earth. See on ver.

2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are …

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

all these.

2 Peter 3:12 Looking for and hastening to the coming of the day of God, wherein …

Psalm 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up …

Isaiah 14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you, whole Palestina, are dissolved…

Isaiah 24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the …

Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall …

what.

Matthew 8:27 But the men marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even …

1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and …

James 1:24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets …

in all.

Psalm 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to …

Psalm 50:23 Whoever offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation …

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: …

Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from where also we look for the …

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, …

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with …

James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show …

1 Peter 1:15 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner …

1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas …

godliness.

2 Peter 1:3,6 According as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain …

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was …

1 Timothy 6:3,6,11 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even …

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

account.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; …

Romans 2:4 Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering…

1 Timothy 1:16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus …

1 Peter 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of …

our beloved.

Acts 15:25 It seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen …

according.

Exodus 31:3,6 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, …

Exodus 35:31,35 And he has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, …

1 Kings 3:12,28 Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you …

1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and …

Ezra 7:25 And you, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, …

Proverbs 2:6,7 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding…

Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, …

Daniel 2:20,21 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and …

Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries …

Acts 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor …

1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, …

1 Corinthians 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another …

James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all …

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

in all. See on

1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout …

speaking.

Romans 8:1-39 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ …

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 Moreover, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached …

1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:28 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus…

2 Kings 1:1-18 Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab…

hard.

1 Kings 10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning …

Hebrews 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing …

unstable.

2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling …

Genesis 49:4 Unstable as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your …

2 Timothy 3:5-7 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such …

James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

wrest.

Exodus 23:2,6 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak …

Deuteronomy 16:19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither …

Psalm 56:5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for …

the other.

Jeremiah 23:36 And the burden of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man's …

Matthew 15:3,6 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the …

Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered and said to them, You do err, not knowing the scriptures, …

unto their own.

2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there …

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory …

1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which …

Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old …

Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

seeing.

2 Peter 1:12 Why I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these …

Proverbs 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Matthew 24:24,25 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall …

Mark 13:23 But take you heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

John 16:4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, …

beware.

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, …

Matthew 16:6,11 Then Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the …

Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, …

2 Timothy 4:15 Of whom be you ware also; for he has greatly withstood our words.

being.

2 Peter 2:18-20 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through …

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall …

Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs …

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly…

2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through …

from.

2 Peter 1:10,11 Why the rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and …

2 Peter 2:18-22 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through …

Acts 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, …

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always …

Ephesians 4:14 That we from now on be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried …

Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, …

Hebrews 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of …

1 Peter 5:9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions …

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

grow.

Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like …

Hosea 14:5 I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast …

Malachi 4:2 But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise …

Ephesians 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, …

Colossians 1:10 That you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful …

2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is meet, …

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may …

knowledge.

2 Peter 1:3,8 According as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain …

2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through …

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined …

Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory…

Philippians 3:8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency …

Colossians 1:10 That you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful …

Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after …

To him.

John 5:23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. …

2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve …

1 Peter 5:10,11 But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory …

Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and …

Revelation 1:6 And has made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him be …

Revelation 5:9-14 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, …

Amen.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your …

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …

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