2 Peter 3:4-8 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!"

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ 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, ⁶ by which also the world, through being deluged with water, was destroyed. ⁷ But by the same command the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire and are kept for the day when godless men are to be doomed and destroyed. ⁸ But you must avoid forgetting this one fact, dearly beloved, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day.