2 Peter 3:4

2 Peter chapter 3 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

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

v.4This passage

v.5For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 5:18
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.
Mark 13:19
For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?