2 Peter 3:6
Good News Translation
and it was also by water, the water of the flood, that the old world was destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
through which the world of that time was deluged with water and perished.

Contemporary English Version
Later it was destroyed by the waters of a mighty flood.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

Genesis 7:10-23 And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. . . .

Genesis 9:15 And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

Job 12:15 If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.

Matthew 24:38,39 For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark: . . .

Luke 17:27 They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Context
The Coming Judgment
5For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were before, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the word of God: 6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. 7But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noe, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened:

Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

2 Peter 2:5
And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

2 Peter 3:5
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