'People' in the Bible

But [in those days] false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will subtly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

and if He did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought [the judgment of] a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

But these [false teachers], like unreasoning animals, [mere] creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do not understand, will also perish in their own corruption [in their destroying they will be destroyed],

First of all, know [without any doubt] that mockers will come in the last days with their mocking, following after their own human desires

But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly people.