2 Peter 3:1-6 ▼

1 This [is] now, beloved, a second letter I write to you, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding [you]

2 to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior,

3 knowing this first, that there will come scoffers in the last days, going on according to their own desires,

4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation”;

5 for this they willingly conceal, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth having been established by the word of God out of water and through water,

6 through which the world then, having been flooded by water, was destroyed;