2 Peter 3:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish (pass away) with a thunderous crash, and the [material] elements [of the universe] will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.

American Standard Version (1901)

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Common English Bible

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will pass away with a dreadful noise, the elements will be consumed by fire, and the earth and all the works done on it will be exposed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then the day of the Lord shall arrive like a thief. On that day, the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and truly the elements shall be dissolved with heat; then the earth, and the works that are within it, shall be completely burned up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it, shall be burnt up.

2 Peter 3:10 Cross References

Psalm 102:26

They will perish, but thou dost endure; they will all wear out like a garment. Thou changest them like raiment, and they pass away;

Psalm 46:6

The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.

Psalm 97:5

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up and high;

Isaiah 24:19

The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is violently shaken.

Isaiah 34:4

All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.

Isaiah 51:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die like gnats; but my salvation will be for ever, and my deliverance will never be ended.

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near,

Joel 2:31

The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Joel 3:14

Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

Amos 9:13

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.

Amos 9:5

The Lord, God of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

Micah 1:4

And the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will be cleft, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before him, the hills melt; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all that dwell therein.

Malachi 4:5

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Mark 13:31

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Luke 12:39

But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.

Romans 8:20

for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope;

1 Corinthians 1:8

who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 5:5

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief.

2 Peter 3:11

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

2 Peter 3:12

waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire!

2 Peter 3:7

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Jude 1:6

And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kept by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment of the great day;

Revelation 16:15

(“Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!”)

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it; from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

Revelation 3:3

Remember then what you received and heard; keep that, and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you.

Revelation 6:14

the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.