38 (A)For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,

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38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,(A) up to the day Noah entered the ark;

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39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.(A)

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26 (A)And as it (B)was in the (C)days of (D)Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

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26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah,(A) so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.

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27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the (A)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and (B)destroyed them all.

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27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

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By faith (A)Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, (B)prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of (C)the righteousness which is according to faith.

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By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen,(A) in holy fear built an ark(B) to save his family.(C) By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.(D)

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20 who formerly were disobedient, [a]when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:20 NU, M when the longsuffering of God waited patiently

20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently(A) in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.(B) In it only a few people, eight in all,(C) were saved(D) through water,

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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;

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if he did not spare the ancient world(A) when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,(B) but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;(C)

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