1 Peter 3:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim waited in the days of Noaḥ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ [The souls of those] who long before in the days of Noah had been disobedient, when God's patience waited during the building of the ark in which a few [people], actually eight in number, were saved through water. [Gen. 6-8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

Common English Bible

²⁰ In the past, these spirits were disobedient—when God patiently waited during the time of Noah. Noah built an ark in which a few (that is, eight) lives were rescued through water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ who had been unbelieving in past times, while they waited for the patience of God, as in the days of Noah, when the ark was being built. In that ark, a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

1 Peter 3:20 Cross References

Genesis 6:13

and Elohim said to Noaḥ

Genesis 6:3

And יהוה  said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

Genesis 6:5

And יהוה  saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:8

But Noaḥ

Genesis 7:13

On that same day Noaḥ

Genesis 8:1

And Elohim remembered Noaḥ

Genesis 8:18

So Noaḥ

Isaiah 30:18

And therefore יהוה  shall wait, to show you favour. And therefore He shall be exalted, to have compassion on you. For יהוה  is an Elohim of right-ruling. Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Matthew 7:14

“Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Luke 12:32

“Do not fear, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign.

Acts 2:41

Then those, indeed, who gladly received his word, were immersed. And on that day about three thousand beings were added to them.

Romans 9:22

And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Ephesians 5:26

in order to set it apart and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

Hebrews 11:7

By belief, Noaḥ

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have cleansed your lives in obeying the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently with a clean heart,

1 Peter 1:9

obtaining the goal of your belief: a deliverance of lives.

1 Peter 2:25

For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your lives.

1 Peter 3:19

in which also He went and proclaimed unto the spirits in prison,

1 Peter 4:19

So then, those who suffer according to the desire of Elohim should commit their lives to a trustworthy Creator, in doing good.

2 Peter 2:5

and did not spare the world of old, but preserved Noaḥ

2 Peter 3:15

and reckon the patience of our Master as deliverance, as also our beloved brother Sha’ul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,