2 Peter 3:6

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 9:15

And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh.

Job 12:15

If he restrains the waters, everything will dry up; and if he sends them forth, they will subdue the land.

Luke 17:27

They were eating and drinking; they were taking wives and being given in marriage, even until the day that Noah entered the ark. And the flood came and destroyed them all.

2 Peter 2:5

And he did not spare the original world, but he preserved the eighth one, Noah, the herald of justice, bringing the flood upon the world of the impious.