2 Peter 3:3-6 knowing this first, that in the last day scoffers will come, walking after their own desires,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ knowing this first, that in the last day scoffers will come, walking after their own 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 the creation." ⁵ For this they wilfully forget, that by the word of God there were heavens of old, and an earth consisting of water and in water, ⁶ by which the world that then existed, being deluged, was destroyed;