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1 Now this, dearly beloved, the second epistle I write to you; in which I awaken your pure mind by putting in remembrance: 2 To remember the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the command of us the sent of the Lord and Saviour: 3 Knowing this first, that in the last of the days shall mockers come for deceiving, going according to their own eager desires, 4 And saying, Where is the solemn promise of his presence? for from the time the fathers were set to sleep, so continue all things from the beginning of creation. 5 For being willing this is unknown to them, that the heavens were a long while ago, and the earth having stood out of water and by water, by the word of God: 6 By which then the world, overflowed with water, perished: 2 Peter 3:1-6, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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