knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come (A)in the last days with scoffing, (B)following their own sinful desires. (C)They will say, “Where is the promise of (D)his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth (E)was formed out of water and through water (F)by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed (G)was deluged with water and (H)perished.

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