2 Peter 3:10

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

The day of the Lord's return will surprise us like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a loud noise, and the heat will melt the whole universe. Then the earth and everything on it will be seen for what they are.

Cross References

Revelation 21:1

I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and so had the sea.

Matthew 24:35

The sky and the earth won't last forever, but my words will.

2 Peter 3:7

But God has commanded the present heavens and earth to remain until the day of judgment. Then they will be set on fire, and ungodly people will be destroyed.

Revelation 16:15

Remember Christ says, “When I come, it will surprise you like a thief! But God will bless you, if you are awake and ready. Then you won't have to walk around naked and be ashamed.”

Isaiah 51:6

Look closely at the sky! Stare at the earth. The sky will vanish like smoke; the earth will wear out like clothes. Everyone on this earth will die like flies. But my victory will last; my saving power never ends.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

You surely know that the Lord's return will be as a thief coming at night.

Mark 13:31

The sky and the earth will not last forever, but my words will.

2 Peter 3:12

You should look forward to the day when God judges everyone, and you should try to make it come soon. On that day the heavens will be destroyed by fire, and everything else will melt in the heat.

Isaiah 34:4

Each star will disappear— the sky will roll up like a scroll. Everything in the sky will dry up and wilt like leaves on a vine or fruit on a tree.

Revelation 3:3

Remember the teaching you were given and heard. Hold firmly to it and turn from your sins. If you don't wake up, I will come when you least expect it, just as a thief does.

Luke 12:39

You would surely not let a thief break into your home, if you knew when the thief was coming.

Psalm 102:26

They will all disappear and wear out like clothes. You change them, as you would a coat, but you last forever.

Revelation 20:11

I saw a great white throne with someone sitting on it. Earth and heaven tried to run away, but there was no place for them to go.

Nahum 1:5

At the sight of the Lord, mountains and hills tremble and melt; the earth and its people shudder and shake.

Joel 2:31

The sun will turn dark, and the moon will be as red as blood before that great and terrible day when I appear.

Amos 9:5

When the Lord God All-Powerful touches the earth, it melts, and its people mourn. God makes the earth rise and then fall, just like the Nile River.

1 Corinthians 5:5

You must then hand that man over to Satan. His body will be destroyed, but his spirit will be saved when the Lord Jesus returns.

Micah 1:4

Mountains will melt beneath his feet like wax beside a fire. Valleys will vanish like water rushing down a ravine.

Isaiah 24:19

the earth is shattered, ripped to pieces.

Psalm 97:5

Mountains melt away like wax in the presence of the Lord of all the earth.

Amos 9:13

You will have such a harvest that you won't be able to bring in all of your wheat before plowing time. You will have grapes left over from season to season; your fruitful vineyards will cover the mountains.

Joel 2:1

Sound the trumpet on Zion, the Lord's sacred hill. Warn everyone to tremble! The judgment day of the Lord is coming soon.

Joel 1:15

We are in for trouble! Soon the Lord All-Powerful will bring disaster.

Isaiah 2:12

The Lord All-Powerful has chosen a day when those who are proud and conceited will be put down.

Romans 8:20

Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope

Malachi 4:5

I, the Lord, promise to send the prophet Elijah before that great and terrible day comes.

Joel 3:14

Crowds fill Decision Valley. The judgment day of the Lord will soon be here—

Psalm 46:6

Nations rage! Kingdoms fall! But at the voice of God the earth itself melts.

Jude 1:6

You also know about the angels who didn't do their work and left their proper places. God chained them with everlasting chains and is now keeping them in dark pits until the great day of judgment.

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as you already partly understand us. Then when our Lord Jesus returns, you can be as proud of us as we are of you.

1 Corinthians 1:8

And until the day Christ does return, he will keep you completely innocent.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

My dear friends, you don't live in darkness, and so that day won't surprise you like a thief.

2 Peter 3:11

Everything will be destroyed. So you should serve and honor God by the way you live.

Revelation 6:14

Then the sky was rolled up like a scroll, and all mountains and islands were moved from their places.