New Revised Standard Version
who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.

Contemporary English Version
They had disobeyed God while Noah was building the boat, but God had been patient with them. Eight people went into that boat and were brought safely through the flood.

New American Bible
who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

sometime.

Genesis 6:3,5,13 And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. . . .

the longsuffering.

Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Romans 2:4,5 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? . . .

Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction,

2 Peter 3:15 And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:

the days.

Matthew 24:37-39 And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. . . .

Luke 17:26-30 And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. . . .

while.

Genesis 6:14-22 Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without. . . .

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.

wherein.

Genesis 7:1-7,13,23 And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation. . . .

Genesis 8:1,18 And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated: . . .

Matthew 7:14 How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!

Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.

Luke 13:24,25 Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and shall not be able. . . .

2 Peter 2:5 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.

by.

Genesis 7:17-23 And the flood was forty days upon the earth: and the waters increased, and lifted up the ark on high from the earth. . . .

2 Corinthians 2:15,16 For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish. . . .

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: