3 Of this, first, taking notethat there will come, in the last of the days, with scoffing, scoffers, after their own covetings, going on,4 and sayingWhere is the promise of his presence? For, since the fathers fell asleep, all things, thus remain, from the beginning of creation.5 For this they, willfully, forgetthat there were, heavens, from of old, and, an earth, on account of water and by means of water, compacted, by Gods word,6 By which means, the world that then was, with water being flooded, perished;7 While, the heavens and the earth that now are, by the same word, have been stored with fire, being kept unto the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly men.