Parallel Bible results for "2 Peter 3:1-7"

2 Peter 3:1-7

GOD'S WORD Translation GW

1 Dear friends, this is the second letter I'm writing to you. In both letters I'm trying to refresh your memory.

2 I want you to remember the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and what the Lord and Savior commanded you through your apostles.

3 First, you must understand this: In the last days people who follow their own desires will appear. These disrespectful people will ridicule [God's promise]

4 by saying, "What's happened to his promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of the world."

5 They are deliberately ignoring one fact: Because of God's word, heaven and earth existed a long time ago. The earth [appeared] out of water and was kept alive by water.

6 Water also flooded and destroyed that world.

7 By God's word, the present heaven and earth are designated to be burned. They are being kept until the day ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.

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.

7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.