2 Peter 3:6

World English Bible (2000)

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

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  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
  • Gen 7:10-23 : 10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened. 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship; 14 they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 They went to Noah into the ship, by pairs of all flesh with the breath of life in them. 16 Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in. 17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered. 20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
  • Gen 9:15 : 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
  • Job 12:15 : 15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
  • Matt 24:38-39 : 38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, 39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  • Luke 17:27 : 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

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  • 2 Pet 3:4-5
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    4 and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

    5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

  • 2 Pet 3:7
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    7 But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

  • 2 Pet 2:5-6
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    5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

    6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

  • 1 Pet 3:20
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    20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

  • Gen 7:17-24
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    17 The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.

    19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

    20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

    21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

    22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

    23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

    24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

  • Job 22:16
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    16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

  • Gen 7:6
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    6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

  • Gen 6:11-13
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    11 The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

    13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

    11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

    12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 8:2-3
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    2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

    3 The waters receded from the earth continually. After the end of one hundred fifty days the waters decreased.

  • 2 Pet 3:10-12
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    10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

    11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

    12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

  • Heb 11:7
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    7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

  • Gen 1:6-7
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    6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

    7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

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    3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

  • Luke 17:26-27
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    26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

    27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

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    7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

  • Gen 7:4
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    4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

  • Gen 1:2
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    2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  • Gen 8:14
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    14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

  • Gen 1:9
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    9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

  • Matt 24:37
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    37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

  • Luke 17:29
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    29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

  • Gen 9:11
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    11 I will establish my covenant with you: all flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, neither will there ever again be a flood to destroy the earth."