1 My dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both letters to stir up your sincere understanding with a reminder.
2 I want you to recall what the holy prophets foretold as well as what the Lord and savior commanded through your apostles.
3 Most important, know this: in the last days scoffers will come, jeering, living by their own cravings,
4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? After all, nothing has changed—not since the beginning of creation, nor even since the ancestors died."
5 But they fail to notice that, by God’s word, heaven and earth were formed long ago out of water and by means of water.
6 And it was through these that the world of that time was flooded and destroyed.
7 But by the same word, heaven and earth are now held in reserve for fire, kept for the Judgment Day and destruction of ungodly people.