2 Peter 3:6

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 9:15

I will [earnestly] remember My covenant or solemn pledge which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy and make all flesh corrupt.

Job 12:15

He withholds the waters, and the land dries up; again, He sends forth [rains], and they overwhelm the land or transform it.

Luke 17:27

[People] ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. [Gen. 6:5-8; 7:6-24.]

2 Peter 2:5

And He spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven other persons, when He brought a flood upon the world of ungodly [people]. [Gen. 6-8; I Peter 3:20.]