7 By faith ^uNoah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear ^vconstructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the ^wrighteousness that comes by faith.

20 because¹ they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, ^owhile the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, ^twhen he brought a ^uflood upon the world of the ungodly;