1 Peter 3:20
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.
Context
This verse from 1 Peter Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. Wives, be subject to your husbands; husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, honoring them as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the grace of life. All of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love. Always …
Other Translations
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:
who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah--an ark being preparing--in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;
Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:
Cross References
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his …
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts …
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with …
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because …
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and …
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it …
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the …
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and …
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that …