Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Sin has corrupted all creation, and it cannot be freed without dissolution. If man's transgression has brought such ruin, how abominable sin is and how much we must hate it. You must labor to be eminent in holiness, not content with a lower measure, holy in God's house and your own, in worship and in all your dealings with men.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 3:11-18
Nevertheless we, according to his promise,.... Or promises, as the Alexandrian copy, and the Vulgate Latin version; namely those in Isa 65:17; look for new heavens and a new earth; not figuratively, the world to come in distinction from the Jewish world or state; a new church state, the Gospel dispensation, with new ordinances, as baptism and the Lord's supper, all legal ceremonies and ordinances...
Verse 13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise. The allusion here seems to be, beyond a doubt, to two passages in Isaiah, in which a promise of this kind is found. : "For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." : "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I...