2 Peter 3:3-6 To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions,

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions, ⁴ asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation." ⁵ They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water. ⁶ By water the then-existing world was deluged and destroyed,