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2 Peter 3:4-6
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4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since[a] the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation.” 5 For when[b] they maintain this, it escapes their notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God, 6 by means of which things the world that existed at that time was destroyed by[c] being inundated with water.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 3:4 Literally “from which time”
  2. 2 Peter 3:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“maintain”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 2 Peter 3:6 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“being inundated”) which is understood as means
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