2 Peter 3:3-7

Expanded Bible

³ It is most important for you to understand what will happen in the last days. ·People [^LScoffers] will ·laugh at [scoff at; ridicule] you. They will ·live doing the evil things they want to do [indulge their own desires/lusts; Jude 18]. ⁴ [^LAnd] They will say, “·Jesus promised to come again. Where is he [^LWhere is his promised coming]? [^LFor] Our ·fathers [ancestors] have ·died [^Lfallen asleep], but ·the world [^Lall things] continues the way it has been since ·it was made [it began with creation].” ⁵ But they ·do not want to remember [willfully forget/ignore] what happened long ago. By the word of God heaven ·was made [came to be; Gen. 1:3–20; Ps. 33:6; 148:5; Heb. 11:3], and the earth was made from water [Gen. 1:2; Ps. 24:2] and with water [Gen. 1:6–7, 9; Ps. 33:7; 136:6; Prov. 8:27–29]. ⁶ ·Then [^LThrough these; ^Ceither the water and the word of God, or the heavens and earth which poured forth their water; Gen. 7:11] the world was flooded and destroyed ·with water [^Lbeing deluged with water; Gen. 6—9]. ⁷ And that same word of God is ·keeping [reserving; holding in store] heaven and earth that we now have in order to be destroyed by fire [Deut. 32:22; Is. 66:15–16; Zeph. 1:18; Mal. 4:1]. They are being kept for the judgment day and the destruction of ·all who are against God [^Lthe ungodly/impious people].