³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.^(A)

⁴³ But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.^(A)

⁷ so that you are not lacking in any gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ.^(A)

² For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.^(A)

¹³ while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior,^[a] Jesus Christ.^(A)

The New Heaven and the New Earth

21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.^(A)

¹² It has a great, high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names that are the names^[a] of the twelve tribes of the Israelites:^(A)