2 Peter 3:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ through which the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.

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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

Genesis 9:15

I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Job 12:15

If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

Luke 17:27

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

2 Peter 2:5

if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;