2 Peter 3:10
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10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.[a](A)
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- 3.10 Other ancient authorities read will not be found or will be burned up
Revelation 21:1
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The New Heaven and the New Earth
21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.(A)
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Matthew 24:35
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35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.(A)
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Revelation 16:15
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15 (“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed,[a] not going about naked and exposed to shame.”)(A)
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- 16.15 Gk and keeps his robes
2 Peter 3:7
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7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the godless.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 5:2
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2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.(A)
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Isaiah 51:6
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6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens
and look at the earth beneath,
for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and those who live on it will die like gnats,[a]
but my salvation will be forever,
and my deliverance will never be ended.(A)
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- 51.6 Or in like manner
Revelation 20:11
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The Dead Are Judged
11 Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his[a] presence, and no place was found for them.(A)
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- 20.11 Gk the
Revelation 3:3
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3 Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.(A)
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2 Peter 3:12
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12 waiting for and hastening[a] the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set ablaze and destroyed and the elements will melt with fire?
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- 3.12 Or earnestly desiring
Luke 12:39
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39 “But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he[a] would not have let his house be broken into.(A)
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- 12.39 Other ancient authorities add would have watched and
Mark 13:31
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31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.(A)
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Matthew 24:42-43
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42 Keep awake, therefore, for you do not know on what day[a] your Lord is coming.(A) 43 But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.(B)
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- 24.42 Other ancient authorities read at what hour
Isaiah 34:4
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4 All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall wither
like a leaf withering on a vine
or fruit withering on a fig tree.(A)
Nahum 1:5
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5 The mountains quake before him,
and the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
the world and all who live in it.(A)
Joel 2:31
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31 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(A)
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1 Corinthians 5:5
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5 you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.[a](A)
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- 5.5 Other ancient authorities add Jesus
Psalm 102:26
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26 They will perish, but you endure;
they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away,(A)
Malachi 4:5
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5 See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.(A)
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Amos 9:13
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13 The time is surely coming, says the Lord,
when the one who plows shall catch up with the one who reaps
and the treader of grapes with the one who sows the seed;
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and all the hills shall flow with it.(A)
Amos 9:5
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5 The Lord, God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who live in it mourn,
and all of it rises like the Nile
and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt,(A)
Isaiah 24:19
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19 The earth is utterly broken;
the earth is torn apart;
the earth is violently shaken.(A)
Romans 8:20
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20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
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Micah 1:4
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4 Then the mountains will melt under him,
and the valleys will burst open
like wax near the fire,
like waters poured down a slope.(A)
Joel 3:14
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14 Multitudes, multitudes,
in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.(A)
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