knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Peter 3:3 in context
2 Peter 3:1–6
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This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you
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that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,
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knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
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and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
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For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
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by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
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