2 Peter 3:7
But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless.
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6and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of water.
Cross References
Psalms 102:26They shall perish; but you do stand. They shall all wax old like a garment, and change as a robe you will change them.
Zephaniah 3:8Wait for me, is the Lord’s message, until the day when I stand up as a witness, for it is my fixed purpose to gather the nations, to collect the kingdoms, to pour upon them my wrath and my hot anger; for by the fire of my fury will all the earth be consumed.
Matthew 11:22Yet, I tell you, the doom of Tyre and Sidon will be more bearable in the day of judgment than yours.
Matthew 12:36I tell you that for every careless thing that people say, they must answer on the “day of judgment.”
Matthew 25:41Then he will say to those on his left “Go from my presence, accursed, into the permanent fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.
Romans 2:5Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself wrath on the day of wrath, when God’s justice as a judge will be revealed;
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 →