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.

The longsuffering

Romans 2:4

Romans 9:22

2 Peter 3:15

The days

Matthew 24:37

Luke 17:26

While

Hebrews 11:7

Wherein

By

2 Corinthians 2:15

Ephesians 5:26

General references

Matthew 24:37

Bible References

The longsuffering

Or, do you despise the riches of his goodness, and his forbearance, and his long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

What, then, if God, intending to show his wrath, and to make his power known, yet, in much long-suffering bore with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction:

and count the long-suffering of our Lord, salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, has written to you;

The days

But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

While

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

Wherein

How strait is the gate, and how narrow the way, that leads to life! and few there are that find it.

Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Strive to enter in through the strait gate; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

and if he spared not the old world, but brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, and saved Noah, the eighth person, who was a preacher of righteousness;

By

For, through God, we are a sweet odor of Christ, among the saved, and among the lost:

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word,

General references

But as the days of Noah were, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.