2 Peter 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

through these the world that then existed was destroyed, deluged with water.

Cross References

Genesis 9:15

I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature—every mortal being—so that the waters will never again become a flood to destroy every mortal being.

Job 12:15

He holds back the waters and there is drought; he sends them forth and they overwhelm the land.

Luke 17:27

they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

2 Peter 2:5

and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, together with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the godless world;