2 Peter 3:4
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4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died,[a] all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”(A)
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- 3.4 Gk our fathers fell asleep
Jeremiah 17:15
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15 See how they say to me,
“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come!”(A)
Malachi 2:17
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17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”(A)
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Jeremiah 5:12-13
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12 They have spoken falsely of the Lord
and have said, “He will do nothing.
No evil will come upon us,
and we shall not see sword or famine.”(A)
13 The prophets are nothing but wind,
for the word is not in them.
Thus shall it be done to them!(B)
Luke 12:45
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45 But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
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Isaiah 5:18-19
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18 Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,
who drag sin along as with cart ropes,(A)
19 who say, “Let him make haste;
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfillment,
that we may know it!”(B)
Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.
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Matthew 24:48
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48 But if that wicked slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’
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Ezekiel 12:22-27
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22 Mortal, what is this proverb of yours about the land of Israel that says, “The days are prolonged, and every vision comes to nothing”?(A) 23 Tell them therefore, “Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall use it no more as a proverb in Israel.” But say to them: “The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.(B) 24 For there shall no longer be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.(C) 25 But I the Lord will speak the word that I speak, and it will be fulfilled. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and fulfill it, says the Lord God.”(D)
26 The word of the Lord came to me: 27 Mortal, the house of Israel is saying, “The vision that he sees is for many years ahead; he prophesies for distant times.”(E)
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1 Thessalonians 2:19
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19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?(A)
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Genesis 19:14
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14 So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.(A)
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Mark 13:19
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19 For in those days there will be suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now and never will be.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
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9 What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.(A)
Revelation 3:14
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The Message to Laodicea
14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin[a] of God’s creation:(A)
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- 3.14 Or beginning
Ezekiel 11:3
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3 they say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.’(A)
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Mark 10:6
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6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’(A)
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Matthew 24:28
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28 Wherever the corpse is, there the eagles will gather.
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