sometime.

Genesis 6:3, 5, 13
So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years." . . .

the longsuffering.

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

Romans 2:4, 5
Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you to repentance? . . .

Romans 9:22
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

2 Peter 3:15
Consider also that our Lord's patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.

the days.

Matthew 24:37-39
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. . . .

Luke 17:26-30
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: . . .

while.

Genesis 6:14-22
Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out. . . .

Hebrews 11:7
By 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.

wherein.

Genesis 7:1-7, 13, 23
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. . . .

Genesis 8:1, 18
But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. . . .

Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Luke 12:32
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

Luke 13:24, 25
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. . . .

2 Peter 2:5
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;

by.

Genesis 7:17-23
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. . . .

2 Corinthians 2:15, 16
For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. . . .

Ephesians 5:26
to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,