^{3 Ref} knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

^{4 Ref} 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."

^{5 Ref} For this 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;