2 Peter 3:5-7 For this is hidden from them by their willing it so, that heavens were of old, and earth by water, and through water, being held together by the word of God,

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ For this is hidden from them by their willing it so, that heavens were of old, and earth by water, and through water, being held together by the word of God, ⁶ through which the world which then was, being flooded by water, perished. ⁷ But the heavens and the earth now, having been stored up by the same word, are being kept for fire to a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.