1 Peter 3:20 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 3:20

who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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:

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

When the longsuffering of God waited - For an hundred and twenty years; all the time the ark was preparing: during which Noah warned them all to flee from the wrath to come.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀπειθήσασίν	apeithēsasin	having disobeyed	G544 →
ποτε,	pote	at one time,	G4218 →
ὅτε	hote	when	G3753 →
ἀπεξεδέχετο	apexedecheto	he was expecting	G553 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
μακροθυμία	makrothumia	longsuffering	G3115 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἡμέραις	hēmerais	[the] days	G2250 →
Νῶε	Nōe	of Noah	G3575 →
κατασκευαζομένης	kataskeuazomenēs	when is being prepared	G2680 →
κιβωτοῦ,	kibōtou	[the] ark,	G2787 →
εἰς	eis	in	G1519 →
ἣν	hēn	which	G3739 →
ὀλίγοι,	oligoi	few	G3641 →
τοῦτ᾽	tout᾽	That	G3778 →
ἔστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὀκτὼ	oktō	eight	G3638 →
ψυχαί,	psuchai	souls —	G5590 →
διεσώθησαν	diesōthēsan	were saved	G1295 →
δι᾽	di᾽	through	G1223 →
ὕδατος·	hudatos	water;	G5204 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 6:5
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
leads to
- Matthew 15:19
  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
- Romans 1:28–31
  Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Mark 7:21–23
  For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Jeremiah 4:14
  Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Jeremiah 17:9
  The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Through
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes…
leads to
- Genesis 6:13
  Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- Ezekiel 14:14
  then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.
Through
Genesis 6:3
So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
leads to
- Nehemiah 9:30
  You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.