It is new heavens and a new earth that we expect, as He has promised, and in them dwells righteousness.
Then I saw the new heaven and the new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea is no more.
Nothing profane, none who practises abomination or falsehood shall enter, but those alone whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life.
the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God.
bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature —