1. 2 Peter 3:11 (ESV)
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What are "all these things" that Peter is referring to?

2 Peter 3:11 (ESV)

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

Peter is referring to the heavens and the elements that he mentioned in 2 Peter 3:10, that is the heavens and the earth as we perceive them today. In the final judgment the world as we know it will be destroyed1 (see comments for 2 Peter 3:10).

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