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

Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn.

Our God shall come, and not keep silence: there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; they all shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.

Lift up your eyes to heaven and behold the earth beneath. For heaven shall vanish away as smoke, and the earth shall wear away as a vesture, and the inhabiters thereof shall perish away after the same manner: but my salvation shall endure ever, and my righteousness shall not perish.

Therefore ye shall wait upon me, sayeth the LORD, until the time that I stand up: for I am determined, to gather the people and to bring the kingdoms together, that I may pour out mine anger, yea all my wrathful displeasure upon them. For all the world shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

Heaven and earth shall perish: but my words shall abide.

Then shall the King say unto them that shall be on the left hand, 'Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels.

in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And I saw a great white seat and him that sat on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found.

And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were vanished away, and there was no more sea.

Against

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished:

Truly I say unto you, it shall be easier for the land of Sodom, and Gomorra, in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Nevertheless I say to you, it shall be easier for Tyre and Sidon, at the day of judgment, than for you.

But I say unto you, that of every idle word, that men shall have spoken, they shall give accounts at the day of judgment.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet, for a witness unto them. I say verily unto you, it shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorra, at the day of judgment, than for that city."

Herein is the love perfect with us, that we should have confidence in the day of judgment; For as he is, even so are we in this world.

And perdition

But thou, after thine hard heart that cannot repent, heapest thee together the treasure of wrath against the day of vengeance: when shall be opened the righteous judgment of God,

and in nothing fearing your adversaries: which is to them a token of perdition, and to you a sign of salvation, and that of God.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for the Lord cometh not, except there come a departing first, and that that sinful man be opened, the son of perdition;

They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.

The beast that thou seest, was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder - whose names are not written in the book of life from he beginning of the world - when they behold the beast that was, and is not.

General references

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like young sheep.

Which laid out the earth above the waters! For his mercy endureth forever.

A wise man seeing the plague will hide himself; as for fools they go on still, and suffer harm.