2 Peter 3:3-5 First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, living in accordance with their evil passions,

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, living in accordance with their evil passions, ⁴ and saying, "Where is His promised coming? For ever since our forefathers fell asleep everything has remained exactly as it was from the beginning of creation!" ⁵ For they willfully ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth that had been formed by God's command out of water and through water,