2 Peter 3:7
Greek Text— 2 Peter 3:7But the heavens that exist now 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.
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.
So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does.
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;
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.
But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.
“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
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?
“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
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,
“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”
I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.