2 Peter 3:12 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² waiting for, and hurrying toward, the advent of the day of the Lord, by which the burning heavens shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt from the heat of the fire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² While you wait and earnestly long for (expect and hasten) the coming of the day of God by reason of which the flaming heavens will be dissolved, and the [material] elements [of the universe] will flare and melt with fire? [Isa. 34:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Common English Bible

¹² waiting for and hastening the coming day of God. Because of that day, the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt away in the flames.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat?

English Standard Version 2016

¹² waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

2 Peter 3:12 Cross References

Psalm 50:3

Be merciful to me, O God, according to your great mercy. And, according to the plentitude of your compassion, wipe out my iniquity.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth will be utterly broken! The earth will be utterly crushed! The earth will be utterly shaken!

Isaiah 34:4

And the entire army of the heavens will languish, and the heavens will be folded like a book. And their entire army will fall away, as a leaf falls from the vine or from the fig tree.

Micah 1:4

And the mountains will be consumed under him, and the valleys will be torn apart, like wax before the face of fire, and like waters that rush swiftly downward.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man will arrive in the glory of his Father, with his Angels. And then he will repay each one according to his works.

Matthew 16:28

Amen I say to you, there are some among those standing here, who shall not taste death, until they see the Son of man arriving in his reign."

Philippians 1:6

I am confident of this very thing: that he who has begun this good work in you will perfect it, unto the day of Christ Jesus.

Titus 2:13

looking forward to the blessed hope and the advent of the glory of the great God and of our Savior Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 3:10

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.

2 Peter 3:11

Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what kind of people ought you to be? In behavior and in piety, be holy,

2 Peter 3:4

saying: "Where is his promise or his advent? For from the time that the fathers have slept, all things have continued just as they were from the beginning of creation."

2 Peter 3:7

But the heavens and the earth that exist now were restored by the same Word, being reserved unto fire on the day of judgment, and unto the perdition of impious men.

Jude 1:21

keeping yourselves in the love of God, and anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.