2 Peter 3:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of 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."

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.

2 Peter 3:4 Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place; for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons of men is fully set to do evil.

Jeremiah 17:15

Behold, they say to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come!”

Ezekiel 11:3

who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.’

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Every one who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.

Matthew 16:28

Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Matthew 24:28

Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

Matthew 24:48

But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’

Mark 10:6

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

Mark 13:19

For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Acts 7:60

And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

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!

Revelation 3:14

“And to the angel of the church in La-odicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.