2 Peter 3:1-6 ▼

1 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;

2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles:

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

4 and saying, |Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.|

5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

6 by which means the world that then was, being deluged with water, was destroyed.