2 Peter 3:3-7 ▼

3 First of all, know [without any doubt] that mockers will come in the last days with their mocking, following after their own human desires

4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming [what has become of it]? For ever since the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things have continued [exactly] as they did from the beginning of creation.”

5 For they willingly forget [the fact] that the heavens existed long ago by the word of God, and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

6 through which the world at that time was destroyed by being flooded with water.

7 But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly people.