◄ 2 Peter 3:13 ►
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Good News Translation
But we wait for what God has promised: new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will be at home.

New Revised Standard Version
But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

Contemporary English Version
But God has promised us a new heaven and a new earth, where justice will rule. We are really looking forward to this!

New American Bible
But according to his promise we await new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

according.

Isaiah 65:17 For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

Revelation 21:1,27 I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. . . .

Context
The Day of the Lord
…12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat? 13But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth. 14Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.…
Cross References
Isaiah 60:21
And thy people shall be all just, they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hand to glorify me.

Isaiah 65:17
For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 66:22
For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

Romans 8:21
Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

2 Peter 1:4
By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.

Revelation 21:1
I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more.

Revelation 21:27
There shall not enter into it any thing defiled or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie: but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

2 Peter 3:12
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