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

General references

Bible References

Sometime

Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

The longsuffering

Isaiah 30:18
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of justice: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Romans 2:4
Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
2 Peter 3:15
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;

The days

Matthew 24:37
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Luke 17:26
And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

While

Genesis 6:14
Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved by fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Wherein

Genesis 7:1
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, 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;
Matthew 7:14
Because narrow is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.
Luke 12:32
Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Luke 13:24
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
2 Peter 2:5
And spared not the ancient world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

By

Genesis 7:17
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are unto God a sweet fragrance of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

General references

Genesis 7:7
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.
Matthew 24:37
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.