WPNT(i)
3 Knowing this first: in the last days mockers will come, living according to their own lusts
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 creation.”
5 This because they deliberately forget that heavens and land (out of water and through water) had been existing from of old by the word of God,
6 by which word the world that then was perished, being flooded by water.
7 But the current heavens, and the earth, are being reserved by His word for fire, being preserved until the day of judgment and perdition of godless men.
8 But dear ones, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider delay, but rather is patient toward us, not wishing anyone to perish but all to come into repentance.