(A)[a]This first understand, that there shall come in the last days, [b]mockers, which will walk after their lusts,

[c]And say, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the Fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.

[d]For this they willingly know not, that the heavens were of old, and the [e]earth that was of the water, and by the water, by the word of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:3 He voucheth the second coming of Christ against the Epicureans by name.
  2. 2 Peter 3:3 Monstrous men, who will seem wise by their contempt of God, and wicked boldness.
  3. 2 Peter 3:4 The reason which these mockers pretend because the course of nature is all one as it was from the beginning: therefore the world is from everlasting, and shall be forever.
  4. 2 Peter 3:5 He setteth against them the creation of heaven and earth by the word of God, which these men are willingly ignorant of.
  5. 2 Peter 3:5 Which appeared when the waters were gathered together into one place.

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