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3 Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges 4 and saying, |Where is his promised return? For ever since our ancestors died, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.| 5 For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water. 6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water. 7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. 2 Peter 3:3-7, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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