2 Peter 3:13 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹³ But, since God has promised it, we look forward to new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will prevail.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise, in which righteousness (uprightness, freedom from sin, and right standing with God) is to abide. [Isa. 65:17; 66:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Common English Bible

¹³ But according to his promise we are waiting for a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Yet truly, in accord with his promises, we are looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth, in which justice lives.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

2 Peter 3:13 Cross References

Romans 8:21

that the created world itself would be freed from its slavery to corrupting influences [i.e., produced by the fall] and receive the glorious freedom which belongs to God’s children.

2 Peter 1:4

By these [blessings] He has given to us the precious and tremendous promises, so that you people may share in His divine nature, [after] having escaped the world’s corruption, caused by evil desires.

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth [had] passed away, and there was no longer any ocean.

Revelation 21:27

And there will never be anything [morally] unclean allowed to enter it, nor any person who practices disgusting behavior [i.e., probably such sins as sexual perversion], or [any person] who is a liar. But the only ones [allowed there] are those [whose names are] recorded in the Lamb’s book of life.