2 Peter 3:12
anticipating and hastening the coming of the day of God, by which the heavens, being made fiery hot, will be disintegrated, and the elements dissolve, being intensely hot?
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Isaiah 2:1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Isaiah 64:1Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
1 Corinthians 1:7so that ye come behind in not one gift, waiting for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Titus 2:13Awaiting the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2 Peter 3:10But the day of Lord will come as a thief in the night, during which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the elements, being intensely hot, will be disintegrated, and the earth and the works in it will be destroyed by fire.
Revelation 6:13And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as a fig tree that casts its unripe figs being shaken by a great wind.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:12-18
Solemn Exhortations. ( a. d. 67.) 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 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? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent… Read the whole commentary →