6through which waters the then world, deluged with water, perished.


In Context

3 knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,

4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,

6 through which waters the then world, deluged with water, perished.

7 But the present heavens and the earth by his word are laid up in store, kept for fire unto a day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

8 But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:6By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6By which the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:6through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: