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to remember the words previously proclaimed by the holy prophets and the commandment of our Lord and Savior through your emissaries. [a] First of all, understand that in the last days, scoffers will come scoffing, following after their own desires [b] and saying, “Where is this promise of His coming?[c] Ever since the fathers died,[d] everything goes on just as it has from the beginning of creation.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:3 cf. Judah 17.
  2. 2 Peter 3:4 cf. Judah 18.
  3. 2 Peter 3:4 cf. Isa. 5:19; Jer. 17:15; Ezek. 11:3; 12:22, 27; Mal. 2:17.
  4. 2 Peter 3:4 Lit. fell asleep.