2 Peter 3:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁶ [And] it was by water that the world, which existed at that time, perished in a great flood [of Noah’s day]!

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.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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.

2 Peter 3:6 Cross References

Luke 17:27

People were eating and drinking and [men were] marrying and [women] were being given away in marriage [right up] until the day that Noah entered the ship and the Flood came and drowned them all.

2 Peter 2:5

and if He did not spare the ancient world of Noah’s day, when He brought a flood on those ungodly people (though Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven other people, were saved from it);