2 Peter 3:4 YLT

²  to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,

³  this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

⁴  and saying, 'Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

⁵  for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

⁶  through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;