It was through water that the world that then existed was destroyed—through being flooded by water.
it will remind me of my agreement between me and you and every kind of living creature that floodwaters won't ever again destroy all life.
If God holds back the waters, everything dries up; if he releases the waters, the earth floods.
People went on eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah went into the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
God didn't spare the ancient world either, but he protected Noah who told people about the God who did right. He was one of the eight who were saved when God sent a flood upon a world of evil people.