2 Peter 3:1-6 ▼

1 This is the second letter I now write to you, my brethren, by which I would awaken your sincere attention,

2 by admonishing you to be mindful of the predictions of the holy prophets, and of the directions of the apostles of our Lord and Saviour.

3 Above all things you are to know, that in these last times, impostors will appear, who will abandon themselves to their own sensual passions, whose cry will be,

4 "where is the promise of his coming? for since our fathers are dead, the state of things is the same it has ever been since the beginning of the world."

5 but they are wilfully ignorant, that the heavens were originally form'd by the divine Logos, and likewise the earth, which was separated from the water, and still subsists upon it.

6 whence the former world was destroyed by an inundation.