2 Peter 3:3-6 Knowing this first, that scoffers shall come in the last days, walking after their own lusts,

TKJU⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Knowing this first, that scoffers shall come in the last days, walking after their own lusts, ⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers deceased, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." ⁵ For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: ⁶ By which the world that existed back then, being overflowed with water, perished: