3 that there will come scoffers in the last days,
4 walking after their own desires, Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they are willingly ignorant of, that by the word of God of old the heavens were and the earth, standing out of the water and in the water,
6 Thro' which the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished.
7 But the heavens and the earth that are now, are by his word kept in store reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.