2 Peter 3:5

For they are willingly ignorant of this, that by the word of God, the heavens of old had their being as also the earth consisting of water and subsisting by water,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

In Context

4and 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.

6by which things the world that then was, having been overflowed with water, perished.

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Cross References

John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Colossians 1:17and he is before all things, and by him all things consist:

Hebrews 11:3By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God, so that the things which are seen, have not come into being from things that appear.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:4-8

The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. ( a. d. 67.) 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 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. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being… Read the whole commentary →

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