3 knowing this first: that mockers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue as from the beginning of creation."
5 For this they willingly forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and [the] earth, consisting out of water and through water,
6 by which the world at that time perished, being flooded by water;
7 but the present heavens and earth, having been stored up by His word, are being reserved for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.