3 this first knowing, that will come in last of the days with scoffing scoffers, according to the own lusts of themselves walking,

4 and saying: Where is the promise of the presence of him? from of which for the fathers feel asleep, all things thus remains from a beginning of creation.

5 It escapes notice for them this being willing, that heavens were of old, and earth out of water and through water having been placed together, by the of the God word,

6 by means of which things the then world by water having been deluged was destroyed;

7 the but now heavens and the earth by the him word having been treasured up are, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.