2 Peter 3:10

2 Peter 3:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
• New International Version (NIV)But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Context of 2 Peter 3:10

8Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day. 9The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare. 11Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness, 12while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze!

2 Peter 3:10 word by word

ἥξει δὲ ἡμέρα κυρίου ὡς κλέπτης ἐν ᾗ οἱ οὐρανοὶ ῥοιζηδὸν παρελεύσονται, στοιχεῖα δὲ καυσούμενα λυθήσεται, καὶ γῆ καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ ἔργα οὐχ εὑρεθήσεται.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Butδέde · thenG1161
• the dayὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the dayἡμέραhēmera · dayG2250
• of the Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962
• will comeἥκωhēkō · to come/be presentG2240
• asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
• a thiefκλέπτηςkleptēs · thiefG2812
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• the nightνύξnux · nightG3571
• the whichὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• the heavensοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• shall pass awayπαρέρχομαιparerchomai · to pass byG3928
• with a great noiseῥοιζηδόνrhoizēdon · with a roarG4500
• the elementsστοιχεῖονstoicheion · principleG4747
• shall meltλύωluō · to looseG3089
• with fervent heatκαυσόωkausoō · to burnG2741
• the earthγῆgē · earth: planetG1093
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• the worksἔργονergon · workG2041
• ·αὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• shall be burned upκατακαίωkatakaiō · to burnG2618

Cross-references for 2 Peter 3:10

• Isaiah 2:12Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud – they will be humiliated;
• Joel 1:15How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.
• Joel 2:1Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, it is near!
• Joel 3:14Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision!
• Malachi 4:5Look, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives.
• 1 Corinthians 5:5turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
• 2 Corinthians 1:14just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• Jude 1:6You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.
• Matthew 24:42“Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
• Luke 12:39But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.
• Revelation 3:3Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
• Revelation 16:15(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)
• Psalms 102:26They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.
• Isaiah 51:6Look up at the sky! Look at the earth below! For the sky will dissipate like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothes; its residents will die like gnats. But the deliverance I give is permanent; the vindication I provide will not disappear.
• Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Commentaries on 2 Peter 3:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10The day of the Lord will come - See Matthew 24:43, to which the apostle seems to allude. The heavens shall pass away with a great noise - As the heavens mean here, and in the passages above, the whole atmosphere, in which all the terrestrial vapours are lodged; and as water itself is composed of two gases, eighty-five parts in weight of oxygen, and fifteen of hydrogen, or two parts in volume of the latter, and one of the former; (for if these quantities…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10But the day of the Lord - The day of the Lord Jesus. That is, the day in which he will be manifested. It is called his day, because he will then be the grand and prominent object as the Judge of all. Compare Luke 17:27. Will come as a thief in the night - Unexpectedly; suddenly. See the notes at 1 Thessalonians 5:2. In the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise - That is, what seems to us to be the heavens. It cannot mean that the holy home…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-10Verses 5-10 Had these scoffers considered the dreadful vengeance with which God swept away a whole world of ungodly men at once, surely they would not have scoffed at his threatening an equally terrible judgment. The heavens and the earth which now are, by the same word, it is declared, will be destroyed by fire. This is as sure to come, as the truth and the power of God can make it. Christians are here taught and established in the truth of the coming of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The elements might refer to the basic parts of the physical universe or to the sun, moon, and stars. its works will be laid bare: The Greek wording here is difficult to interpret. The most likely meaning is that creation will stand before God at the time of judgment, and God will see that it deserves his judgment.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. The certainty, suddenness, and concomitant effects, of the coming of the day of the Lord. Faber argues from this that the millennium, &c., must precede Christ's literal coming, not follow it. But "the day of the Lord" comprehends the whole series of events, beginning with the pre-millennial advent, and ending with the destruction of the wicked, and final conflagration, and general judgment (which last intervenes between the conflagration and the…Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Peter 3:10

• Astronomy
• Day
• Earth
• Fear of God
• Heaven
• Jesus Continued
• Judgment

In the dictionaries

• Asleep
• Dissolve
• Elements
• Hard
• Promise
• Wrest
• Change
• Day
• Element; Elements
• Eschatology of the New Testament

Commentaries on 2 Peter 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings