2 Peter 3:1-7 ▼

1 Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder:

2 I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

3 Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

4 and saying, |Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.|

5 For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.

6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.

7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.