2 Peter 3:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² looking for and hastening the coming of the day of Elohim, through which the heavens shall be destroyed, being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat!

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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.

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.

2 Peter 3:12 Cross References

Psalm 50:3

Our Elohim comes, and is not silent – A fire consumes before Him, And it shall be very stormy all around Him.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth shall be utterly broken, the earth shall be completely shattered, the earth shall be fiercely shaken.

Isaiah 34:4

And all the host of the heavens shall rot away. And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host fade like a leaf fading on the vine, and like the fading one of a fig tree.

Micah 1:4

And the mountains shall melt under Him, and the valleys be cleft as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.

Matthew 16:27

“For the Son of Aḏ

Matthew 16:28

“Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death at all until they see the Son of Aḏ

Philippians 1:6

being persuaded of this, that He who has begun a good work in you shall perfect it until the day of יהושע  Messiah.

Titus 2:13

looking for the blessed expectation and esteemed appearance of the great Elohim and our Saviour יהושע  Messiah,

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of יהוה  shall come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

2 Peter 3:11

Seeing all these are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in set-apart behaviour and reverence,

2 Peter 3:4

and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of creation.”

2 Peter 3:7

And the present heavens and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day of judgment and destruction of wicked men.

Jude 1:21

keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the compassion of our Master יהושע  Messiah unto everlasting life.