2 Peter 3:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts ⁴ and saying, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died,^[a] all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!’ ⁵ They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,