¹³ And God said to Noah, ^(A)“I have determined to make an end of all flesh,^[a] for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

⁵ For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth ^(A)was formed out of water and through water ^(B)by the word of God, ⁶ and that by means of these the world that then existed ^(C)was deluged with water and ^(D)perished. ⁷ But by the same word ^(E)the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and ^(F)destruction of the ungodly.