These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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2 Peter 3
Brit Hadashah 18 verses
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This letter which I am now writing to you, dear friends, is my second letter. In both my letters I seek to revive in your honest minds the memory of certain things,
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- 2 so that you may recall the words spoken long ago by the Prophets, and the commandments of our Lord and Saviour given you through your Apostles.
- 3 But, above all, that, in the last days, men will come who make a mock at everything—men governed only by their own passions,
- 4 and, asking, “What has become of His promised Return? For from the time our forefathers fell asleep all things continue as they have been ever since the creation of the world.”
- 5 For they are wilfully blind to the fact that there were which existed of old, and an earth, the latter arising out of water and extending continuously through water, by the command of ;
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and that, by means of these, the then existing race of men was overwhelmed with water and perished.
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But the present and the present earth are, by the command of the same , kept stored up, reserved for fire in preparation for a day of judgement and of destruction for the unElohimly.
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2 Peter 3:10 2 Peter 3:12 Revelation 21:1 Matthew 24:35 2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 Isaiah 51:6 2 Peter 2:9 Matthew 25:41 Revelation 20:11 Matthew 12:36 Mark 6:11 1 Timothy 6:9 Matthew 10:15 Zephaniah 3:8 Revelation 17:11 Revelation 17:8 1 John 4:17 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Matthew 11:24 Psalm 102:26 Matthew 11:22 Philippians 1:28 Psalm 50:3 Jude 1:7 Romans 2:5 -
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But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand years resemble one day.
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- 9 The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise, in the sense in which some men speak of slowness. But He bears patiently with you, His desire being that no one should perish but that all should come to repentance.
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The day of the Lord will come like a thief—it will be a day on which the will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up.
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Matthew 24:35 Revelation 21:1 1 Thessalonians 5:2 2 Peter 3:7 Revelation 16:15 Luke 12:39 Revelation 3:3 Isaiah 51:6 2 Peter 3:12 Revelation 20:11 Isaiah 34:4 Nahum 1:5 Amos 9:5 Malachi 4:5 Amos 9:13 Isaiah 24:19 Psalm 97:5 1 Corinthians 5:5 Joel 2:1 Joel 1:15 Joel 2:31 Mark 13:31 Micah 1:4 Psalm 102:26 Isaiah 2:12 Matthew 24:42-43 Joel 3:14 Hebrews 1:11-12 Psalm 46:6 Jude 1:6 2 Corinthians 1:14 Romans 8:20 -
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Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all living and Elohimly conduct,
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1 Peter 1:15 2 Peter 3:12 Hebrews 13:5 Matthew 8:27 1 Thessalonians 1:5 James 3:13 1 Timothy 6:11 Isaiah 34:4 Isaiah 24:19 1 Timothy 6:3 1 Timothy 6:6 Psalm 50:23 Psalm 75:3 1 Timothy 3:16 2 Peter 1:3 Philippians 3:20 2 Peter 1:6 Philippians 1:27 James 1:24 Isaiah 14:31 Psalm 37:14 1 Peter 2:12 1 Timothy 4:12 2 Corinthians 1:12 - 12 eagerly looking forward to the coming of the day of , by reason of which the , all ablaze, will be destroyed, and the elements will melt in the fierce heat?
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But in accordance with His promise we are expecting new and a new earth, in which will dwell.
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- 14 Therefore, dear friends, since you have these expectations, earnestly seek to be found in His presence, free from blemish or reproach, in .
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And always regard the patient forbearance of our Lord as , as our dear brother also has written to you in virtue of the wisdom granted to him.
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2 Peter 3:9 Acts 15:25 Romans 2:4 1 Timothy 1:16 1 Corinthians 2:13 1 Kings 3:28 Ecclesiastes 2:26 Proverbs 2:6-7 1 Kings 3:12 1 Peter 3:20 Ephesians 3:3 Daniel 2:20-21 Ezra 7:25 1 Corinthians 3:10 1 Kings 4:29 James 1:5 1 Corinthians 12:8 James 3:17 Luke 21:15 Acts 7:10 Exodus 31:6 Exodus 35:35 Exodus 31:3 Exodus 35:31 -
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That is what he says in all his letters, when speaking in them of these things. In those letters there are some statements hard to understand, which ill-taught and unprincipled people pervert, just as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own ruin.
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2 Peter 2:14 Matthew 15:6 Hebrews 5:11 Jeremiah 23:36 1 Peter 1:1 Matthew 15:3 Psalm 56:5 Habakkuk 1:4 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5 James 1:8 2 Peter 2:1 1 Peter 2:8 Romans 8:1-39 1 Kings 10:1 Exodus 23:2 Exodus 23:6 2 Timothy 3:5-7 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 Matthew 22:29 Jude 1:4 2 Kings 1:1-18 Genesis 49:4 Deuteronomy 16:19 Philippians 3:19 -
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You, therefore, dear friends, having been warned beforehand, must continually be on your guard so as not to be led astray by the false teaching of immoral men nor fall from your own stedfastness.
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Hebrews 3:14 Matthew 7:15 2 Peter 2:18-22 1 Corinthians 10:12 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Colossians 2:8 1 Corinthians 15:58 2 Corinthians 11:3 Proverbs 1:17 Ephesians 4:14 2 Peter 1:10-12 Matthew 16:11 Acts 2:42 Matthew 16:6 Matthew 24:24-25 John 16:4 1 Peter 5:9 Mark 13:22-23 Philippians 3:2 Colossians 2:5 2 Timothy 4:15 Romans 16:18 Revelation 2:5 -
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But be always growing in the and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour the . To Him be all , both now and to the day of Eternity!
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Colossians 1:10 Ephesians 4:15 1 Peter 2:2 1 Peter 5:10-11 2 Corinthians 4:6 John 17:3 Philippians 3:8 Ephesians 1:17 2 Timothy 4:18 2 Peter 1:3 Jude 1:25 Colossians 3:10 Matthew 6:13 Psalm 92:12 Revelation 1:6 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Romans 11:36 2 Peter 1:11 Hosea 14:5 2 Peter 2:20 Matthew 28:20 Malachi 4:2 Revelation 5:9-14 2 Peter 1:8