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1 IT has been a long time since I have writ ten you, my beloved, but now I write you this second epistle; in both of them I have endeavored to stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment, given through us, the Apostles of our LORD and Saviour: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days mockers who scoff, following after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since our fathers passed away, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 Of this they are willingly ignorant: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water, and in the water; 6 And those men, because of whose deeds the world of that time was overflowed with water, perished: 2 Peter 3:1-6, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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