You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.