2 Peter 3:6 - The Scriptures 1998

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

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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.

2 Peter 3:6 Cross References

Genesis 9:15

and I shall remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and never again let the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Job 12:15

Look, He withholds the waters, and they dry up. And He sends them out, and they overwhelm the earth.

Luke 17:27

“They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noaḥ

2 Peter 2:5

and did not spare the world of old, but preserved Noaḥ