1 Peter 3:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

Sometime

Genesis 6:3

The longsuffering

The days

Matthew 24:37

Luke 17:26

While

Genesis 6:14

Hebrews 11:7

Wherein

By

Genesis 7:17

2 Corinthians 2:15

Ephesians 5:26

General references

Genesis 7:7

Matthew 24:37

Bible References

Sometime

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

The longsuffering

And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?

And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

and account the longsuffering of our Lord to be salvation; according as our beloved brother Paul also has written to you according to the wisdom given to him,

The days

But as the days of Noe, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man.

And as it took place in the days of Noe, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:

While

Make thyself an ark of gopher wood: with cells shalt thou make the ark; and pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Wherein

And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And God remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.

Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.

Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

By

And the flood was forty days on the earth. And the waters increased, and bore up the ark; and it was lifted up above the earth.

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word,

General references

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

But as the days of Noe, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man.