2 Peter 3:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and say, “Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and the world hasn't changed a bit.”

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

Lot went to the men who were engaged to his daughters and said, “Hurry and get out of here! The LORD is going to destroy this city.” But they thought he was joking, and they laughed at him.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Everything that happens has happened before; nothing is new, nothing under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When we see criminals commit crime after crime without being punished, it makes us want to start a life of crime.

Jeremiah 17:15

The people of Judah say to me, “Jeremiah, you claimed to tell us what the LORD has said. So why hasn't it come true?”

Ezekiel 11:3

They say things like, ‘Let's build more houses. This city is like a cooking pot over a fire, and we are the meat, but at least the pot keeps us from being burnt in the fire.’

Malachi 2:17

You have worn out the LORD with your words. And yet, you ask, “How did we do that?” You did it by saying, “The LORD is pleased with evil and doesn't care about justice.”

Matthew 16:27

The Son of Man will soon come in the glory of his Father and with his angels to reward all people for what they have done.

Matthew 16:28

I promise you that some of those standing here will not die before they see the Son of Man coming with his kingdom.

Matthew 24:28

Where there is a corpse, there will always be vultures.

Matthew 24:48

But suppose one of the servants thinks that the master won't return until late.

Mark 10:6

But in the beginning God made a man and a woman.

Mark 13:19

This will be the worst time of suffering since God created the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again.

Luke 12:45

But suppose one of the servants thinks that the master won't return until late. Suppose that servant starts beating all the other servants and eats and drinks and gets drunk.

Acts 7:60

He knelt down and shouted, “Lord, don't blame them for what they have done.” Then he died.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

After all, when the Lord Jesus appears, who else but you will give us hope and joy and be like a glorious crown for us?

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.

Revelation 3:14

This is what you must write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: I am the one called Amen! I am the faithful and true witness and the source of God's creation. Listen to what I say.