3 Knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days, walking after their own lusts,

4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as at the beginning of the creation.

5 But this willfully escapes them, that, by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth subsisting from the water, and by water:

6 by which the world that then was, being deluged with water, perished.

7 But the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured up, being kept for fire to a day of judgment, and destruction of ungodly men.