2 Peter 3:3-9 This first know you, that there will come in the last of the days deriders who will deride, as after their own lusts they walk,

Etheridge⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ This first know you, that there will come in the last of the days deriders who will deride, as after their own lusts they walk, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his advent? for, since our fathers have slept, every thing (abideth) as from the beginning of the creation. ⁵ Unknown to them is this while they are willing, that the heaven was from of old, and the earth from the waters and through the waters [Men mäyo, vabyad mäyo komath.] subsisted, by the word of Aloha: ⁶ those (waters) by which the world that then was, again (was covered) with waters, and perished. ⁷ But the heaven which is now, and the earth, by his own word are set, being reserved unto fire, unto the day of judgment and the perdition of wicked men. ⁸ But this one (truth) be not ignorant of, my beloved, That one day with the Lord (is) as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ Not dilatory is the Lord in his promises, as some consider delay; but is patient on your account, not willing that any man should perish, but (that) every man to repentance should come.