3 Know this first, that in the last days, mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
4 Saying, »Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep in death, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.«
5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,
6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
7 According to the same word, the heavens that now are, and the earth, are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.