2 Peter 3:3-6 knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come, walking after their own lusts,

JPS_ASV_Byz⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come, walking after their own lusts, ⁴ and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. ⁵ For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God, ⁶ by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: