3 knowing this first, that there shall come at [the] close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to 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 from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus 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.”