2 Peter 3:1-6 ▼

1 This second letter I now write to you, beloved; in both of these I arouse your pure mind to remembrance,

2 that you may be mindful of the words formerly spoken by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

3 knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4 and saying: Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the word of God, the heavens of old had their being as also the earth consisting of water and subsisting by water,

6 by which things the world that then was, having been overflowed with water, perished.