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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

2 Peter 3:13 → Isaiah 66:22

Allusion

Later text

2 Peter 3:13BSB

But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

Earlier text

Isaiah 66:22BSB

"For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me," declares the LORD, "so your descendants and your name will endure.

Significance

Peter declares "But in keeping with God's promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells" (kainous ouranous kai gēn kainēn). This echoes Isaiah 66:22, the second of Isaiah's two "new heavens and... new earth" texts (the first being Isa 65:17, already linked in the vault). While Isaiah 65:17 introduces the concept, Isaiah 66:22 emphasizes the permanence of the new creation — they "will endure before Me" — and connects it to the enduring identity of God's people. Peter follows the Isaianic vision but adds the distinctive qualifier "where righteousness dwells" (en hois dikaiosynē katoikei), specifying that the new creation will be characterized by the permanent dwelling of righteousness. This fulfillment of Isaianic prophecy through Peter demonstrates that the apostolic expectation of cosmic renewal was grounded in OT prophetic hope.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

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Anchor Texts 1

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