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

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.”

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,

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

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.

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knowing this first, that [a]in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his [b]coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and [c]amidst water, by the word of God; by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been [d]stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:3 Greek in the last of the days.
  2. 2 Peter 3:4 Greek presence.
  3. 2 Peter 3:5 Or, through
  4. 2 Peter 3:7 Or, stored with fire