2 Peter 3:10

New American Bible - revised edition

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out. Exhortation to Preparedness.

Cross References

Psalm 102:26

Of old you laid the earth’s foundations; the heavens are the work of your hands.

Psalm 46:6

God is in its midst; it shall not be shaken; God will help it at break of day.

Psalm 97:5

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

Isaiah 2:12

For the Lord of hosts will have his day against all that is proud and arrogant, against all that is high, and it will be brought low;

Isaiah 24:19

The earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken apart, the earth will be convulsed.

Isaiah 34:4

All the host of heaven shall rot; the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll. All their host shall wither away, as the leaf wilts on the vine, or as the fig withers on the tree.

Isaiah 51:6

Raise your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth below; Though the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies, My salvation shall remain forever and my victory shall always be firm.

Joel 1:15

O! The day! For near is the day of the Lord, like destruction from the Almighty it is coming!

Joel 2:1

Blow the horn in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming! Yes, it approaches,

Amos 9:13

Yes, days are coming— oracle of the Lord— When the one who plows shall overtake the one who reaps and the vintager, the sower of the seed; The mountains shall drip with the juice of grapes, and all the hills shall run with it.

Amos 9:5

The Lord God of hosts, Who melts the earth with his touch, so that all who dwell on it mourn, So that it will all rise up like the Nile, and subside like the river of Egypt;

Micah 1:4

The mountains melt under him and the valleys split open, Like wax before the fire, like water poured down a slope.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before him, and the hills dissolve; The earth is laid waste before him, the world and all who dwell in it.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. The Unknown Day and Hour.

Mark 13:31

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. Need for Watchfulness.

Luke 12:39

Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Romans 8:20

for creation was made subject to futility, not of its own accord but because of the one who subjected it, in hope

1 Corinthians 1:8

He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus [Christ].

1 Corinthians 5:5

you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as you have come to understand us partially, that we are your boast as you also are ours, on the day of [our] Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief.

2 Peter 3:11

Since everything is to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought [you] to be, conducting yourselves in holiness and devotion,

2 Peter 3:12

waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames and the elements melted by fire.

2 Peter 3:7

The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless.

Jude 1:6

The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 16:15

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief.” Blessed is the one who watches and keeps his clothes ready, so that he may not go naked and people see him exposed.)

Revelation 20:11

Next I saw a large white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the sky fled from his presence and there was no place for them.

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

Revelation 3:3

Remember then how you accepted and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not watchful, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come upon you.

Revelation 6:14

Then the sky was divided like a torn scroll curling up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.