These men, like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct created to be caught and killed, abuse the things that they do not understand, and so by their corruption they will be destroyed, suffering wrong as punishment for their wrongdoing.

Yet I think it right, as long as I live in this bodily tent, to arouse you by a reminder,

for as long as that upright man was living among them, his upright soul, day and night, was always being tortured by what he saw and heard in their lawless actions --

For they willfully ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth that had been formed by God's command out of water and through water,