3 Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts
4 and say, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the day that our fathers fell asleep everything continues as it was from the beginning of the creation."
5 For they willingly ignore the fact that there were heaven, from of old, and an earth formed out of water and through water, by the word of God;
6 and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed by a deluge of water.
7 But the heavens and earth that now are, by the same word of God, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the Day of Judgment, and for the destruction of ungodly men.