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1 This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you;
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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.
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2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the mitzvot of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
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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.
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3 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
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3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
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4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming?" For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
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4 They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."
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5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an eretz formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;
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5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
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6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
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6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
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