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1 Peter 3:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Which sometime were disobedient, when oncef 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.

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Gen. 6• (Gen. 6)

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sometime.

Gen. 6:3,5,13• ³And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive within man forever, for that he also [is] flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
⁵And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man [was] great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually .
¹³And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of violence through them; and behold I will destroy them with the earth. (Gen. 6:3,5,13)

the longsuffering.

Isa. 30:18• ¹⁸And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah [is] a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him. (Isa. 30:18)

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Rom. 2:4‑5• ⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
⁵But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment, (Rom. 2:4‑5)

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Rom. 9:22• ²²And if God, willing to display his wrath and to make known his power, endured in much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, (Rom. 9:22)

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2 Peter 3:15• ¹⁵and count the long-suffering of our Lord salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given to him, (2 Peter 3:15)

the days.

Matt. 24:37‑39• ³⁷But as the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man;
³⁸for as in those days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
³⁹and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. (Matt. 24:37‑39)

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Luke 17:26‑30• ²⁶{i}And as it took place in the days of Noah, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:{/i}
²⁷they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all [of them].
²⁸And in like manner as took place in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
²⁹but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all [of them]:
³⁰after this [manner] shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:26‑30)

while.

Gen. 6:14‑22• ¹⁴Make thee an ark of gopher wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and pitch it within and without with pitch.
¹⁵And thus shalt thou make it: three hundred cubits the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.
¹⁶A transparency shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit thou shalt finish it above; and the ark's door thou shalt set in its side: [with] lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
¹⁷And I, behold I, bring the flood of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh wherein [is] the breath of life: all that [is] in the earth shall expire.
¹⁸But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy son's wives with thee.
¹⁹And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [kind] shalt thou bring into the ark to keep [them] alive with thee; male and female shall they be.
²⁰Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every reptile of the ground after its kind, two of every [kind] shall come to thee, to keep [them] alive.
²¹And take thou to thee of all food that is eaten, and gather [it] to thee, and it shall be for food for thee and for them.
²²Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him, so did he. (Gen. 6:14‑22)

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Heb. 11:7• ⁷By faith Noah, oracularly warned of things not yet beheld, moved with fear, constructed an ark for saving his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness that is according to faith. (Heb. 11:7)

wherein.

Gen. 7:1‑7,13,23• ¹And Jehovah said to Noah, Go into the ark, thou and all thy house; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
²Of every clean beast thou shalt take [by] sevens, a male and its female, but of the beasts that [are] not clean two, a male and its female;
³also of birds of the heavens [by] sevens, male and female: to keep seed alive on the face of all the earth.
⁴For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and all the living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.
⁵And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.
⁶And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.
⁷And Noah went in and his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
¹³On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
²³And every living substance which [was] on the face of the ground from man to cattle and to reptile and to bird of the heavens; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only remained, and what [was] with him in the ark. (Gen. 7:1‑7,13,23)

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Gen. 8:1,18• ¹And God remembered Noah, and all that lived, and all the cattle that [were] with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
¹⁸And Noah went forth and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives, with him: (Gen. 8:1,18)

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Matt. 7:14• ¹⁴Because narrow [is] the gate, and straitened the way that leadeth off unto life, and few are they that find it. (Matt. 7:14)

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Luke 12:32• ³²{i}Fear not, little flock, for it has been the good pleasure of your Father to give you the kingdom.{/i} (Luke 12:32)

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Luke 13:24‑25• ²⁴Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say unto you, will endeavour to enter in and will not be able.
²⁵From the time that the master of the house shall have risen up, and shall have shut the door, and ye shall begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he answering shall say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: (Luke 13:24‑25)

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2 Peter 2:5• ⁵and spared not an ancient world but preserved Noah an eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought a flood upon a world of ungodly ones; (2 Peter 2:5)

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Gen. 7:17‑23• ¹⁷And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
¹⁸And the waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
¹⁹And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that [were] under all the heavens were covered.
²⁰Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
²¹And all flesh that moved upon the earth expired, bird and cattle and beast and all the creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all mankind:
²²all died which [had] breath of spirit of life, of all that [was] in dry [land].
²³And every living substance which [was] on the face of the ground from man to cattle and to reptile and to bird of the heavens; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only remained, and what [was] with him in the ark. (Gen. 7:17‑23)

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2 Cor. 2:15‑16• ¹⁵Because we are a sweet odour of Christ to God in those to be saved, and in those that perish:
¹⁶to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things? (2 Cor. 2:15‑16)

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Eph. 5:26• ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word, (Eph. 5:26)

• The only ones said to be the objects of His preaching were that generation of mankind which had been favored with the pleading of His Spirit in Noah. Such a favor when they were alive would much more naturally have weighed against the alleged visitation after death, even if other scriptures did not prove its needlessness for saints and its unavailingness for sinners. (“1 Peter 3:19-20” by W. Kelly)

• The clear bearing of the teaching is to contrast the disobedient mass of spirits (in the prison of the separate state for such) with the few who in the ark were brought safe through water. The unbelieving Jews who objected to the fewness of the Christians were thus powerfully met, as well as their contempt for preaching as having no serious effect, whether believed or rejected. (“1 Peter 3:19-20” by W. Kelly)

• These spirits then are in prison, because they did not hearken to the Spirit of Christ in Noah (compare 2 Peter 2:5-9). (“1 Peter 3” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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heretofore disobedienti, when the longsufferingk of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were savedl through waterm:

JND Translation Notes

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i

Or "disbelieving." see John 3.36 and ch. 2.7,8.

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Makrothumia. see Note.f, Jas. 5.7.

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The Greek means "arrive safe into a place of security through difficulty or danger," as Acts 27.44.

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This does not mean, I think, that they went through the water to get in, i.e. through the course of the flood. The apostle's mind does not turn to the flood, but to the water as an instrument. Water was ruin and death, and they were saved through it.

W. Kelly Translation

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disobedienta aforetimeb when the long-suffering of God was waitingc in Noah’s days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through waterd;

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a

The absence of the article before "disobedient" proves the participle to be part of the predicate and assigns the reason for their present imprisonment, "disobedient as heretofore they were when" etc.

b

It is not accurate to render apeithēsasin pote "which aforetime were disobedient" as this would require the article tois. Is not the force rather "disobedient as they once proved when," etc. Their being in prison was in consequence of their previous disobedience to God’s patient warning.

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The word apexedecheto, "was waiting," is unquestionably correct, only one ancient MSS. being adverse.

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"Through water" is right, not "by" it. Water was the destructive element, through which grace saved Noah and those with him in the ark.