2 Peter 3:7
and by the same word, the present heavens and earth, having been stored up for fire, are being preserved until [the] day of judgment and destruction of impious men.
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6through which the world then, having been flooded by water, was destroyed;
Cross References
Psalms 102:26They perish, and You remain, || And all of them become old as a garment, || You change them as clothing, || And they are changed.
Zephaniah 3:8Therefore, wait for Me,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “For the day of My rising for prey, || For My judgment [is] to gather nations, || To assemble kingdoms, || To pour out on them My indignation, || All the heat of My anger, || For by the fire of My jealousy all the earth is consumed.
Matthew 11:22but I say to you, to Tyre and Sidon it will be more tolerable in [the] day of judgment than for you.
Matthew 12:36And I say to you that every idle word that men may speak, they will give for it a reckoning in [the] day of judgment;
Matthew 25:41Then will He say also to those on the left hand, Go from Me, the cursed, into the continuous fire that has been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;
Romans 2:5But according to your hardness and impenitent heart, you treasure up wrath to yourself in [the] day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:4-8
The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. ( a. d. 67.) 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 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. 5 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: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being… Read the whole commentary →