2 Peter 3:3 ASV

¹  This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;

²  that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

³  knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

⁴  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  For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;