2 Peter 3:6

Overview - 2 Peter 3
1	He assures them of the certainty of Christ's coming to judgment, against those scorners who dispute against it;
8	warning the godly, for the long patience of God, to hasten their repentance.
10	He describes also the manner how the world shall be destroyed;
11	exhorting them, from the expectation thereof, to all holiness of life;
16	and again to think the patience of God to tend to their salvation, as Paul wrote to them in his epistles.

2 Peter 3:6  (King James Version)
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: