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2 Peter 3:3-7

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3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,
3 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 creation."
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 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,
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 which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.
7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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.
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