The Coming Judgment
2 Peter 3:6
In 9 translations
- BSB
- through which the world of that time perished in the flood.NA through whom
- KJV
- Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
- WEB
- by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
- ASV
- by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
- LSV
- through which the world then, having been flooded by water, was destroyed;
- YLT
- through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed;
- DBY
- through which [waters] the then world, deluged with water, perished.
- DRC
- Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
- GNV
- Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.
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Where the editions differ
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- NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ὧν (“[means of] those [waters]”); NA28 read ὃν (“[reason of] this”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: διʼ ὧν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 27th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read διʼ ὧν; Nestle–Aland 28th edition read διʼ ὃν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- διʼ ὧν ὁ τότε κόσμος ὕδατι κατακλυσθεὶς ἀπώλετο·
- RP2018
- δι’ ὧν ὁ τότε κόσμος ὕδατι κατακλυσθεὶς ἀπώλετο·
- TR-Boyd
- δι᾿ ὧν ὁ τότε κόσμος ὕδατι κατακλυσθεὶς ἀπώλετο·
- SCR1894
- δι ων ο τοτε κοσμος υδατι κατακλυσθεις απωλετο
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 24:38–39For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it…
- 2 Peter 2:5if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
- Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
- Genesis 7:10–23And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the…
- Job 12:15If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
- Genesis 9:15I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
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