For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

for no prophecy was ever made by the act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men

but he was rebuked for his own transgression by a donkeya beast without speechwho spoke with a man's voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and by means of water,

through which the world at that time was destroyed, being deluged with water.