6 Noah preached repentance, and they that obeyed were saved. (1CL) 7 Jonah preached destruction unto the men of Nineveh; but they, repenting of their sins, obtained pardon of God by their supplications and received salvation, albeit they were aliens from God. (1CL)
1 Clement 7:6–7
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Jonah 3:9–10
9 Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.” 10 When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
Jonah 3:4–6
4 On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!” 5 And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. 6 When word rea…
2 Peter 2:4–6
4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preache…
1 Clement 9:3–4
3 Let us set before us Enoch, who being found righteous in obedience was translated, and his death was not found. (1CL) 4 Noah, being found faithful, by his ministration preached regeneration unto the world, and through him the Master saved the living creatures that ent… (1CL)
Matthew 12:40–42
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Luke 11:31–33
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1 Peter 3:19–21
19 in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison 20 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. 21 And this water symbolizes the bap…
Exodus 32:13–15
13 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be t…
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