But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
Parallel translations
- WEB But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
- KJV Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
- NKJV Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
- NASB But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
- NLT But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.
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Quick answer
According to God's promise, believers look for new heavens and a new earth where righteousness dwells. It matters because the Christian hope is not destruction but a renewed creation filled with righteousness.
Overview
Peter directs hope beyond judgment to the promised new heavens and new earth, drawing on Isaiah's prophecy. The defining feature of that renewed creation is that righteousness will be at home there. This positive hope anchors believers' endurance and shapes their conduct now.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 65:17For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
- Rev 21:1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- Isa 66:22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
- Rev 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- Isa 60:21Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
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