For strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life: and few there be, that find it.
1 Peter 3:20 - William Tyndale New Testament which were in time past disobedient, when the long suffering of God abode exceeding patiently in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few (that is to say viij. souls) were saved by water, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. |
For strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life: and few there be, that find it.
¶ Fear not little flock, for it is your father's pleasure, to give you a kingdom.
They that gladly received his preaching were baptised, And the same day, there were added unto them about a three thousand souls.
Even so, God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, suffered with long patience the vessels of wrath, ordained to damnation,
to sanctify it, and cleansed it in the fountain of water thorow the word,
¶ By faith Noah honoured God, after that he was warned of things which were not seen, and prepared the ark to the saving of his household, throwe the which ark he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which cometh by faith.
¶ And for as much as ye have purified your souls thorow the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
For ye were as sheep which go astray: but are now returned unto the shepherd, and bishop of your souls.
¶ In which spirit, he also went and preached unto the spirits that were in prison,
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him with well doing, as unto a faithful creator.
neither spared the old world: but saved Noah the eighte preacher of righteousness, and brought in the flood into the world of the ungodly,
And suppose that the long suffering of the Lord is health, even as our dearly beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given unto him, wrote to you,