3 Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from since the fathers became asleep, all things continue this way from the beginning of creation.

5 For this is willfully ignored by them, that long ago there were heavens, and an earth that came together out of water and by water by the word of God,

6 by which the world then perished, having been overflowed with water.

7 But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men.