2 Peter 3:4

New American Bible - revised edition

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? From the time when our ancestors fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation.”

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had contracted marriage with his daughters. “Come on, leave this place,” he told them; “the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun!

Ecclesiastes 8:11

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not promptly executed, the human heart is filled with the desire to commit evil—

Jeremiah 17:15

See how they say to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come to pass!”

Ezekiel 11:3

They are saying, “No need to build houses! The city is the pot, and we are the meat.”

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words, yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All evildoers are good in the sight of the Lord, And he is pleased with them,” or “Where is the just God?”

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct.

Matthew 16:28

Amen, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

Matthew 24:28

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. The Coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:48

But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’

Mark 10:6

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.

Mark 13:19

For those times will have tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of God’s creation until now, nor ever will be.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

Acts 7:60

Then he fell to his knees and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them”; and when he said this, he fell asleep.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what is our hope or joy or crown to boast of in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming if not you yourselves?

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.

Revelation 3:14

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this: “‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this: