2 Peter 3:6

and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of water.

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

In Context

5For they wilfully shut their eyes to the fact that long ago the heavens existed; and the earth, also – formed out of water and by the action of water, by the fiat of God;

7But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:15I will remember the agreement which is between me and you and every living creature; and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all living things.

Matthew 24:38In those days before the flood they went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark.

2 Peter 2:5Nor did he spare the world of old; though he preserved Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought a flood on the godless world.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:4-8

The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. ( a. d. 67.) 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being… Read the whole commentary →

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