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²¹For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

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⁵if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; ⁶if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; ⁷and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men ⁸(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

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¹⁵They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

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⁵But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.

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⁶By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.

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 ¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.^[a]

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¹³But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.