2 Peter 2:5
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
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;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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;
- 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;
- 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,
- ASV
- and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- DARBY
- and spared not [the] old world, but preserved Noe, [the] eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in [the] flood upon [the] world of [the] ungodly;
- BLB
- and He did not spare the ancient world, but He preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, one of eight, having brought the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
- ÅB
- og han sparte heller ikke den gamle verden, men bevarte Noah, rettferdighetens forkynner, som den åttende, da han førte vannfloden over en verden av ugudelige,
- OTB
- og ikke sparte den gamle verden, men bevarte Noah, en rettferdighetens forkynner, sammen med syv andre, da Han brakte en flom over de ugudeliges verden;
- B1930
- og ikke sparte den gamle verden, men opholdt rettferdighetens forkynner Noah selv åttende, dengang han førte vannflommen over en verden av ugudelige,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Peter 3:6
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
Read in contextHebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Read in contextLuke 17:26–27
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Read in contextJude 1:14–15
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Read in context1 Peter 3:19–20
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Read in contextGenesis 7:1–24
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Read in contextMatthew 24:37–39
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Read in contextGenesis 6:1–8
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
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