⁵ For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,

⁶ through which [waters] the then world, deluged with water, perished.

⁷ But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹¹ All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,

¹² waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which [the] heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and [the] elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

¹³ But, according to his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.