MLV(i)
3 Knowing this first, that mockers will be coming in the last of the days, conducting-themselves according to their own lusts,
4 and saying, Where is the promise of his presence? For from which time the fathers fell-asleep, thus all things remain as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this is eluding them, (willing it to be so): that there were heavens from long-ago, and an earth established out of water and through water by the word of God;