Cross references

2 Peter 3:4

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”

2 Peter 3:4 BSB

2 Peter 3:4 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 17:15 (15 votes) and Malachi 2:17 (12 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from Genesis 19 to Revelation 3.

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Which verses does 2 Peter 3:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”

  2. Malachi 2:1712 votes

    You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

  3. They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine. The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”

  4. Luke 12:4510 votes

    But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

  5. Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

  6. When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

  7. But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’

  8. So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

  9. “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’? Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no longer recite it.’ But say to them: ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled. …

  10. After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

  11. Mark 13:194 votes
  12. Mark 10:63 votes

Which verses point to 2 Peter 3:4?

The 10 strongest of 30.