3Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
3Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
1 Behold this second epistle I write to you, my dearly beloved, in which I stir up by way of admonition your sincere mind:
2 That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.
3 Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before, and the earth out of water, and through water, consisting by the word of God.
3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
3:3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
3:3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
3:3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
3:3knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,
3:3knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
3:3Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
3:3this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,
3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,