2 Peter 3:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

The heavens

Against

And perdition

Revelation 17:8

General references

Psalm 114:4

Psalm 136:6

Proverbs 27:12

Bible References

The heavens

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements, burning, shall be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

Our God shall come and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed:

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and those that dwell therein shall perish in like manner; but my saving health shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall never perish.

Therefore wait for me, said the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my judgment is to gather the Gentiles, that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Then he shall also say unto those who shall be on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels;

with flaming fire, to take vengeance on those that do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And I saw a great white throne and him that was seated upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and their place was not found.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

Against

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished;

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of those of Sodom and those of Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you, when ye depart from there, shake off the dust under your feet in testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment than for that city.

In this the charity with us is made perfect, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, that as he is, so are we in this world.

And perdition

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of saving health and that of God.

Let no one deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

For those that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition; and those that dwell on the earth shall wonder (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

General references

The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs.

To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures for ever.

A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are hurt by it.