2 Peter 3:6 - American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Through which the world that then [existed] was deluged with water and perished. [Gen. 1:6-8; 7:11.]

Common English Bible

⁶ And it was through these that the world of that time was flooded and destroyed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ By water, the former world then, having been inundated with water, perished.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.

2 Peter 3:6 Cross References

Genesis 9:15

and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Job 12:15

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Luke 17:27

They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

2 Peter 2:5

and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;