if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
Parallel translations
- WEB and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
- KJV And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- NKJV and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;
- NASB and did not spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- NLT And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood.
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God did not spare the ancient world but brought the flood on the ungodly, while preserving Noah and seven others, a preacher of righteousness. It matters because God judges the wicked yet faithfully rescues the righteous.
Overview
The flood is Peter's second example, showing God's judgment on a corrupt world. Yet alongside judgment stands deliverance: Noah and his family were saved. Noah's role as a 'preacher of righteousness' both warned his generation and models faithful witness amid widespread sin.
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- 2 Pet 3:6through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
- Heb 11:7By 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 by faith.
- Luke 17:26–27Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- Jude 1:14–15Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
- Gen 7:1–24Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- Matt 24:37–39As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
- 1 Pet 3:19–20in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison
- Gen 6:1–8Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
- Job 22:15–16Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
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