3 Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
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Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
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.
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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.”