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2 Peter 2:5

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;

KJV

καὶ ἀρχαίου κόσμου οὐκ ἐφείσατο, ἀλλὰ ὄγδοον Νῶε δικαιοσύνης κήρυκα ἐφύλαξεν, κατακλυσμὸν κόσμῳ ἀσεβῶν ἐπάξας,

Greek NT

Et originali mundo non pepercit, sed octavum Noë justitiæ præconem custodivit, diluvium mundo impiorum inducens.

Vulgate

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;

ASV

And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Νῶε
noe
noun · 8×
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosune
noun · 92×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατακλυσμός
kataklusmos
noun · 4×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
κῆρυξ
kerux
noun · 3×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
φείδομαι
pheidomai
verb · 10×
φυλάσσω
phulasso
verb · 31×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀρχαῖος
archaios
adjective · 11×
ἀσεβής
asebes
adjective · 9×
ἐπάγω
epago
verb · 3×
ὄγδοος
ogdoos
adjective · 5×

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Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Wherefore, let us yield obedience to His excellent and glorious will; and imploring His mercy and loving-kindness, while we forsake all fruitless labours, and strife, and envy, which leads to death, let us turn and have recourse to His compassions. Let us steadfastly contemplate those who have perfectly ministered to His excellent glory. Let us take Enoch, who, being found righ…
And it repented the Lord that he had made man. Moses describes the dreadful corruption which provoked God to destroy the world by the flood. When it is said that God repented, this is spoken after the manner of men, for God is not subject to passions. Yet the expression teaches that sin is so hateful to God that he cannot look upon it without displeasure. Noah found grace in th…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 3:19 — By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
  • 1Pet 3:20 — 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.
  • 1Pet 4:18 — And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
  • 1Tim 2:7 — Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
  • 2Pet 2:4 — 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;
  • 2Pet 3:6 — Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
  • 2Pet 3:6 — Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
  • Deut 7:6 — For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
  • Ezek 7:6 — An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
  • Gen 5:29 — And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
  • Gen 6:8 — But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
  • Gen 6:9 — These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
  • Gen 6:12 — And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • Gen 6:17 — And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
  • Gen 6:18 — But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
  • Gen 7:1 — 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.
  • Gen 7:1 — 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.
  • Gen 7:7 — And 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.
  • Gen 7:23 — And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and N
  • Heb 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 whi
  • Heb 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 whi
  • Job 22:16 — Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
  • Jude 1:4 — For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
  • Jude 1:14 — And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
  • Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
  • Luke 17:26 — And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
  • Matt 24:37 — But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
  • Matt 24:37 — But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
  • Matt 24:40 — Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
  • Rom 5:6 — For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.