Catholic Public Domain Version
"Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires, "
— 2 Peter 3:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,”
“knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, ”
“knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,”
“Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges”
“Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,”
“Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,”
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,”
Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind,
so that you may be mindful of those words that I preached to you from the holy prophets, and of the precepts of the Apostles of your Lord and Savior.
Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires,
saying: “Where is his promise or his advent? For from the time that the fathers have slept, all things have continued just as they were from the beginning of creation.”
But they willfully ignore this: that the heavens existed first, and that the earth, from water and through water, was established by the Word of God.
By water, the former world then, having been inundated with water, perished.