Parallel Bible results for "2 Peter 3:1-6"

2 Peter 3:1-6

Revised Standard Version RSV

1 This is now the second letter that I have written to you, beloved, and in both of them I have aroused your sincere mind by way of reminder;

2 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

3 First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions

4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation."

5 They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water,

6 through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.

New International Version NIV

1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.

2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.

6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.