1 Peter 3:20
that refused to believe, when God patiently waited in the time of Noah while the ark was being built. Only a few—in fact eight people—were saved “through water.”
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19He went to speak to those “imprisoned”
Cross References
Genesis 6:5The Lord saw how terribly evil people on earth had become—every single thought in their minds was evil all the time!
Genesis 7:13That was the actual day when Noah, his wife, and their sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth together with their three wives went into the ark.
Genesis 8:1But God hadn't forgotten about Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the ark. God sent a wind to blow over the earth, and the floodwaters started to drop.
Isaiah 30:18So the Lord waits, wanting to be kind to you, ready to act to show you mercy, for the Lord is a God who does what is right. All who wait for him are blessed.
Matthew 24:37When the Son of man comes it will be like it was during the time of Noah.
Luke 13:24“Try very hard to enter the narrow doorway, because I tell you that many will try to go in, and won't succeed.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:19-21
Christ's Sufferings. ( a. d. 66.) 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 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. Here, I. The example of Christ is proposed as an argument for… Read the whole commentary →