3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
3First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.
2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
4 They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."
5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after 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 in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,
3:3Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, 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,