LEB(i)
3 above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires
4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ⌊ever since⌋* the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation."
5 For when* they maintain this, it escapes their notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God,
6 by means of which things the world that existed at that time was destroyed by* being inundated with water.