scoffers

³Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires, ⁴saying: “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.”

¹⁸who declared to you that, in the end time, there would arrive mockers, walking according to their own desires, in impieties.

⁴¹‘You despisers! Look, and wonder, and be scattered! For I am working a deed in your days, a deed which you would not believe, even if someone were to explain it to you.’ ”

¹⁰Cast out the one who ridicules, and conflict will go out with him, and accusations and insults will cease.

³⁶And so, be vigilant, praying at all times, so that you may be held worthy to escape from all these things, which are in the future, and to stand before the Son of man.”

²so 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. ³Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires,

⁴As for them, the god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, would not shine in them.

²⁹Judgments are prepared for those who ridicule. And striking hammers are prepared for the bodies of the foolish.

³⁷And just as in the days of Noah, so also will be the advent of the Son of man. ³⁸For it will be just as it was in the days before the flood: eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, even until that day when Noah entered into the ark. ³⁹And they did not realize it, until the flood came and took them all away. So also will the advent of the Son of man be.

¹A wise son is the doctrine of his father. But he who ridicules does not listen when he is reproved.

³Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires,

¹Consider, most beloved, this second epistle which I am writing to you, in which I stir up, by admonition, your sincere mind, ²so 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. ³Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires, ⁴saying: “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.” ⁵But 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. ⁶By water, the former world then, having been inundated with water, perished.

²²And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days shall be shortened.

¹Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.

¹²For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the directors of this world of darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in high places.