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2 Peter 3:3-4 ALT
(3) knowing this first, that scoffers will come at [the] last of the days [or, at [the] end of time], going [fig., living] according to their own desires, (4) and saying, "Where is the promise of His Arrival? For since the fathers fell asleep [fig., died], all [things] continue in the same manner [as] from [the] beginning of creation."

2 Peter 3:3, 4 NWT
3 For you know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: "Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation's beginning."

2 Peter 3:3-4 CEV
(3) But first you must realize that in the last days some people won't think about anything except their own selfish desires. They will make fun of you (4) and say, "Didn't your Lord promise to come back? Yet the first leaders have already died, and the world hasn't changed a bit."

2 Peter 3:3-4 GW
(3) First, you must understand this: In the last days people who follow their own desires will appear. These disrespectful people will ridicule God's promise (4) by saying, "What's happened to his promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of the world."

2 Peter 3:3-4 BBE
(3) Having 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, (4) Saying, 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.

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The Translations we quote are:

ALT - Analytical Literal Translation

ASV - American Standard Version (by the American revision committee in 1897).

Darby - 1889 Darby Bible

DRB - 1899 Douay-Rheims Bible

BBE - 1965 Bible in Basic English

LITV - Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

KJV - King James Version

MKJV - Modern King James Version

NWT - New World Translation

Webster - 1833 Webster Bible

RV - Revised Version

YLT - Young's Literal Translation