2 Peter 3:5 in the World English Bible
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
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4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: