2 Peter 3:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.

Cross References

Psalm 102:26

They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

Psalm 50:3

Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him.

Isaiah 51:6

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.

Isaiah 66:15

For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.

Daniel 7:9

I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.

Zephaniah 3:8

For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion.

Malachi 4:1

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

Matthew 10:15

Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

Matthew 11:22

But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.

Matthew 11:24

But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

Matthew 12:36

And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

Matthew 25:41

Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

Mark 6:11

And whatever place will not take you in and will not give ear to you, when you go away, put off the dust from your feet as a witness against them.

John 12:48

He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

1 Corinthians 3:13

Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

Philippians 1:28

Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

2 Thessalonians 2:3

Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is an all-burning fire.

2 Peter 2:9

The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

2 Peter 3:12

Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

1 John 4:17

In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

Jude 1:7

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 17:11

And the beast which was, and is not, is himself the eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes into destruction.

Revelation 17:8

The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.

Revelation 20:11

And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.

Revelation 21:1

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.