2 Peter 3:3-7

21st Century King James Version

³ knowing this first: that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

⁴ and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

⁵ For of this they are willfully ignorant: that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water,

⁶ whereby the world as it then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

⁷ But the heavens and the earth which now are, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the Day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men.