JMNT(i)
5 You see, it continues unnoticed and unrecognized – [
by]
those folks habitually desiring this [
to be the case]
(or: = they deliberately ignore the fact) –
that skies (or: atmospheres; heavens)
and land were continuously existing from long ago (or: = from ancient times) –
from out of the midst of water, and through water – being made to stand together (being placed or put together)
by (or: in; with)
the Word (Logos; thought and idea; reason)
of God (or: which is God),
6 through which [
very waters; or: directives of His Word]
the ordered System (world of culture and relationships)
of that time destroyed (or: lost)
itself, being washed down (inundated; deluged)
by water.
7 Yet at the present time the heavens and the earth (or: the atmospheres and skies, as well as the land),
by the same Word (or: in the same Logos) –
having been collected and being stored up as treasure, by (or: in; for; with)
fire – continuously exist, being constantly kept (watched, guarded and maintained)
with a view to a day of separating for deciding (or: with the character of evaluating for judging),
as well as of loss, ruin or destruction which pertains to the irreverent humans (or: of people devoid of reverential awe toward God).