2 Peter 3:4 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And say, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the forefathers fell asleep, all things have continued exactly as they did from the beginning of creation.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Common English Bible

⁴ and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? After all, nothing has changed—not since the beginning of creation, nor even since the ancestors died.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

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."

English Standard Version 2016

⁴ They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

2 Peter 3:4 Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.

Jeremiah 17:15

Behold, they say to me: Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.

Ezekiel 11:3

Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.

Matthew 16:28

Amen I say to you, there are some of them that stand here, that shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Matthew 24:28

Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.

Matthew 24:48

But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming:

Mark 10:6

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

Mark 13:19

For in those days shall be such tribulations, as were not from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, neither shall be.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

2 Peter 3:12

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?

Revelation 3:14

And to the angel of the church of Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the creation of God: