2 Peter 3:1-6 ▼

1 THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I rouse up your sincere mind by awakening your recollection

2 to remember the words, that have been spoken aforetime by the holy prophets, and the injunction of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3 knowing this principally, that in the last of the days there will come scoffers, walking after their own lewd passions,

4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue in the same state as from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they chuse to keep out of sight, that by the word of God the heavens were created of old, and the earth rising out of the water and subsisting amidst the water;

6 whence the world then existing, being deluged by water, was destroyed;