2 Peter 3:5

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2 Peter 3:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

4 “Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”

5 But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

6 through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

7 And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

John 3:20

Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

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2 Thessalonians 2:12

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Genesis 1:6

And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”

Genesis 1:9

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

Psalms 24:2

For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

Psalms 33:6

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

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Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Colossians 1:17

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.