2 Peter 3:4-6

4and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming [what has become of it]? For ever since the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things have continued [exactly] as they did from the beginning of creation.”

5For they willingly forget [the fact] that the heavens existed long ago by the word of God, and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

6through which the world at that time was destroyed by being flooded with water.