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2 Peter 3:3-5
Lexham English Bible
2 Peter 3:3-5
Lexham English Bible
3 above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since[a] the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation.” 5 For when[b] they maintain this, it escapes their notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God,
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- 2 Peter 3:4 Literally “from which time”
- 2 Peter 3:5 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“maintain”) which is understood as temporal
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