2 Peter 3:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.

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  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 Neither hath spared the olde worlde, but saued Noe the eight person a preacher of righteousnesse, and brought in the flood vpon the world of the vngodly,
  • Gen 7:10-23 : 10 And so after seuen dayes the waters of the flood were vpon the earth. 11 In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened, 12 And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes. 13 In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke. 14 They and euery beast after his kinde, and all cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euen euery bird of euery fether. 15 For they came to Noah into ye Arke, two and two, of all flesh wherein is ye breath of life. 16 And they entring in, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in. 17 Then ye flood was fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the Arke, which was lift vp aboue the earth. 18 The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters. 19 The waters preuailed so exceedingly vpon the earth, that all the high mountaines, that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered. 20 Fifteene cubites vpwarde did the waters preuaile, when the mountaines were couered. 21 Then all flesh perished that moued vpon the earth, both foule and cattell and beast, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, and euery man. 22 Euery thing in whose nostrels the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoeuer they were in the drie land, they died. 23 So he destroyed euery thing that was vpon the earth, from man to beast, to ye creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: they were euen destroyed from the earth; Noah onely remained; & they that were with him in ye Arke.
  • Gen 9:15 : 15 Then will I remember my couenant, which is betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing in all flesh, and there shalbe no more waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
  • Job 12:15 : 15 Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.
  • Matt 24:38-39 : 38 For as in the dayes before the flood, they did eate and drinke, marrie, and giue in mariage, vnto the day that Noe entred into the Arke, 39 And knewe nothing, till the flood came, and tooke them all away, so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be.
  • Luke 17:27 : 27 They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

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  • 2 Pet 3:4-5
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    4And say, Where is the promes of his coming? For since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.

    5For this they willingly know not, that the heauens were of olde, and the earth that was of the water and by the water, by the word of God.

  • 2 Pet 3:7
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    7But the heauens and earth, which are nowe, are kept by the same word in store, and reserued vnto fire against the day of condemnation, and of the destruction of vngodly men.

  • 2 Pet 2:5-6
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    5Neither hath spared the olde worlde, but saued Noe the eight person a preacher of righteousnesse, and brought in the flood vpon the world of the vngodly,

    6And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrhe into ashes, condemned them and ouerthrewe them, and made them an ensample vnto them that after should liue vngodly,

  • 1 Pet 3:20
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    20Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of Noe, while the Arke was preparing, wherein fewe, that is, eight soules were saued in the water.

  • Gen 7:17-24
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    17Then ye flood was fourtie dayes vpon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bare vp the Arke, which was lift vp aboue the earth.

    18The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly vpon the earth, and the Arke went vpon the waters.

    19The waters preuailed so exceedingly vpon the earth, that all the high mountaines, that are vnder the whole heauen, were couered.

    20Fifteene cubites vpwarde did the waters preuaile, when the mountaines were couered.

    21Then all flesh perished that moued vpon the earth, both foule and cattell and beast, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, and euery man.

    22Euery thing in whose nostrels the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoeuer they were in the drie land, they died.

    23So he destroyed euery thing that was vpon the earth, from man to beast, to ye creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: they were euen destroyed from the earth; Noah onely remained; & they that were with him in ye Arke.

    24And the waters preuailed vpon the earth an hundreth and fiftie dayes.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17And I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.

  • Job 22:16
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    16Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:

  • Gen 7:6
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    6And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.

  • Gen 6:11-13
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    11The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.

    12Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.

    13And God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with the earth.

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    10And so after seuen dayes the waters of the flood were vpon the earth.

    11In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened,

    12And the raine was vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes.

  • Gen 8:2-3
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    2The fountaines also of the deepe and the windowes of heauen were stopped and the raine from heauen was restrained,

    3And the waters returned from aboue the earth, going and returning: and after the ende of the hundreth and fiftieth day the waters abated.

  • 2 Pet 3:10-12
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    10But the day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the night, in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noyse, and the elements shall melt with heate, and the earth with the workes that are therein, shalbe burnt vp.

    11Seeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued, what maner persons ought ye to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse,

    12Looking for, and hasting vnto the comming of that day of God, by the which the heauens being on fire, shall be dissolued, and the elements shall melt with heate?

  • Heb 11:7
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    7By faith Noe being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seene, mooued with reuerence, prepared the Arke to the sauing of his housholde, through the which Arke hee condemned the world, and was made heire of the righteousnes, which is by faith.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6Againe God saide, Let there be a firmament in the middes of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

    7Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament; it was so.

  • Heb 11:3
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    3Through faith we vnderstand that the world was ordeined by the worde of God, so that the things which we see, are not made of things which did appeare.

  • Luke 17:26-27
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    26And as it was in the dayes of Noe, so shall it be in the dayes of the Sonne of man.

    27They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  • Gen 6:7
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    7Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, fro man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue made them.

  • Gen 7:4
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    4For seuen dayes hence I will cause it raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and all the substance that I haue made, will I destroy from off the earth.

  • Gen 1:2
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    2And the earth was without forme and voide, and darkenesse was vpon the deepe, and the Spirit of God moued vpon ye waters.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.

  • Gen 8:14
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    14And in the second moneth, in the seuen & twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6Thou coueredst it with the deepe as with a garment: the waters woulde stand aboue the mountaines.

  • Gen 1:9
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    9God saide againe, Let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appeare; it was so.

  • Matt 24:37
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    37But as the dayes of Noe were, so likewise shall the coming of the Sonne of man be.

  • Luke 17:29
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    29But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heauen, and destroyed them all.

  • Gen 9:11
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    11And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.