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and saying “Where is the promise[a] of His coming? For from which day the fathers[b] fell-asleep, everything is continuing in-this-manner[c] from the beginning of creation”.

But God Has Destroyed The Ungodly Before, And He Will Do So Again

For this escapes-notice-of those who are willing[d]— that by the word of God there were heavens from-long-ago, and an earth having existence out of water and by water, through which[e] the world at that time was destroyed[f], having been flooded with water.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:4 That is, the fulfillment of the promise He would come.
  2. 2 Peter 3:4 That is, the ones who wrote of the promise.
  3. 2 Peter 3:4 That is, as it has been.
  4. 2 Peter 3:5 That is, those who willingly ignore what follows.
  5. 2 Peter 3:6 This is plural, referring to the water and the word, or to the waters.
  6. 2 Peter 3:6 Or, perished.

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