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

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever,

because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

The longsuffering

Therefore the Lord

longs to be gracious to you,

And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
How blessed are all those who

long for Him.

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you,

The days

For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.

And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

While

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen,

in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Wherein

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided.

For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen gladly to give you the kingdom.

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

By

Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.

For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing;

so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

General references

Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood.

For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.