²⁰ Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

²¹ And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;

²² Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.

³⁷ And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.

³⁸ Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

³⁹ And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go;

⁴¹ Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.

⁴² Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

⁷ By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.