2 Peter 3:5

Weymouth NT

For they are wilfully blind to the fact that there were heavens which existed of old, and an earth, the latter arising out of water and extending continuously through water, by the command of God;

Cross References

Romans 1:28

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

Colossians 1:17

And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe is a harmonious whole.

Hebrews 11:3

Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.