1My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;
2So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.
3Having 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,
4Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.
5But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
6And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.
7But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
