1 Peter 3:20
They were disobedient when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, in the days of the building of an ark, and God saved a few people—eight souls—by means of the water.
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19By the Spirit, he went and preached to the spirits who are now in prison.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
Genesis 7:13On that very same day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark.
Genesis 8:1God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.
Isaiah 30:18Yet Yahweh is waiting to be gracious to you, therefore he is ready to show you mercy. 1 For Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. 1
Matthew 24:37As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Luke 13:24“Struggle to enter through the narrow door, because, I say to you, many will want to enter, but will not be able to enter.
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 →