Genesis 6:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And the Lorde sayde: I wyll from the vpper face of the earth, destroy man whom I haue created, from man vnto cattell, vnto worme, and vnto foules of the ayre: For it repenteth me that I haue made them.

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  • Ps 24:1-2 : 1 A psalme of Dauid. The earth is Gods and all that therin is: the worlde, & they that dwell therin. 2 For he hath laide the foundation of it vpon the seas: and he hath set it sure vpon the fluddes.
  • Ps 37:20 : 20 As for the vngodly they shall perishe, and the enemies of God shall consume as the fat of lambes: yea, euen with the smoke they shall vanishe away.
  • Prov 10:27 : 27 The feare of the Lorde maketh a long lyfe: but the yeres of the vngodly shalbe shortened.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 The Lorde hath made all thynges for his owne sake: yea, the vngodly for the day of wrath.
  • Jer 4:22-27 : 22 Neuerthelesse, this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolishe, and hath not knowen me: they are the children of foolishnesse, and without any discretion: To do euyll, they haue wit inough: but to do well, they haue no wisdome. 23 I haue loked vpon the earth, and see it was waste and voyde: I loked towarde heauen, and it had no shine. 24 I behelde the mountaynes, and lo, they trembled, and all the hylles were in a feare. 25 I loked about me, and there was no body: and all the birdes of the ayre were away. 26 I marked well, and the plowed fielde was become waste, yea all their cities were broken downe at the presence of the Lord and indignation of his wrath. 27 For thus hath the Lorde saide: The whole lande shalbe desolate, yet wyll I not then haue done.
  • Jer 12:3-4 : 3 But thou Lorde to whom I am well knowen, thou that hast sene and proued my heart, take them away, like as a flocke is caryed to the slaughter house, & appoynt them for the day of slaughter. 4 Howe long shall the lande mourne, and all the hearbes of the fielde perishe for the wickednesse of them that dwell therin? The cattell and the birdes are gone, yet say they, tushe, God wyll not destroy vs vtterly.
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therfore shall the lande mourne, and all they that dwell therein shalbe rooted out, the beastes of the fielde, the foules of the ayre, and the fisshes in the sea, shalbe consumed.
  • Zeph 1:3 : 3 I will destroy man and beast, I will destroy the foules in the ayre, and the fishe in the sea, and great ruine shall fall on the wicked, and I wil vtterly destroy the men out of the land, sayth the Lorde.
  • Rom 3:20-22 : 20 Because that by the deedes of the lawe, there shall no flesshe be iustified in his syght. For by the lawe, commeth the knowledge of sinne. 21 But nowe is the righteousnes of God declared without the lawe, beyng witnessed by the testimonie of the lawe and of the prophetes. 22 The ryghteousnes of God commeth by the fayth of Iesus Christe, vnto all and vpon all them that beleue. There is no difference:

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  • Gen 6:5-6
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    89%

    5 But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart was only euyll euery day.

    6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man vpon the earth, & he was touched with sorowe in his heart.

  • 17 And beholde, I, euen I do bryng a fludde of waters vpon the earth, to destroy all fleshe wherin is the breath of lyfe vnder heauen, and euery thyng that is in the earth shall perishe.

  • Gen 6:11-13
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    11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the same earth was fylled with crueltie.

    12 And God loked vpon the earth, and beholde it was corrupt: for all fleshe had corrupt his way vpon earth.

    13 And God sayd vnto Noah: the ende of all fleshe is come before me, for the earth is fylled with crueltie through them, and beholde I wyl destroy them with the earth.

  • 4 For after seuen dayes, I wyl rayne vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes: & all substaunce that I haue made, wyll I destroy from the vpper face of the earth.

  • 3 So the Lorde repented for this: it shall not be, sayth the Lorde.

  • Gen 7:21-23
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    21 And all fleshe perished, that moued vpon the earth, in foule, in cattell, in beast, and in euery worme that creepeth vpon the earth, yea, and euery man also.

    22 So that all that had the breath of lyfe in his nostrilles throughout all that was on the drye lande, dyed.

    23 And euery substaunce was destroyed that remayned and that was in the vpper part of the grounde, both man and cattell, and worme, and the foule of the heauen, they were euen destroyed from of the earth, and Noah onlye remayned aliue, and they that were with him in the arke.

  • 21 And the Lorde smelled a sweete or quiet sauour, and the Lord sayde in his heart: I wyll not hencefoorth curse the grounde any more for mans sake, for the imagination of mans heart is euyll euen from his youth: neyther wyll I smyte any more euery thyng lyuyng, as I haue done.

  • 6 So the Lord repented for this: this also shall not be, sayth the Lorde God.

  • 3 And the Lorde sayde: My spirite shall not alwayes stryue with man, because he is fleshe: yet his dayes shalbe an hundreth and twentie yeres.

  • Zeph 1:2-3
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    74%

    2 I will surely destroy all thinges in the land, sayth the Lorde.

    3 I will destroy man and beast, I will destroy the foules in the ayre, and the fishe in the sea, and great ruine shall fall on the wicked, and I wil vtterly destroy the men out of the land, sayth the Lorde.

  • 8 But Noah founde grace in the eyes of the Lorde.

  • 14 And the Lorde refrayned hym selfe from the euill whiche he sayd he would do vnto his people.

  • 13 I wyll destroy also al the beastes therof from the great waters sides, neither shall the foote of man trouble them any more, nor the hooues of beastes trouble them.

  • 19 If I sende a pestilence into this lande, and powre out my sore indignation vppon it in blood, so that I roote out of it both man and beast,

  • 26 God saide: let vs make man in our image, after our lykenesse, and let them haue rule of the fisshe of the sea, & of the foule of the ayre, and of cattell, & of all the earth, and of euery creepyng thyng that creepeth vpon the earth.

  • 8 Of cleane beastes, and of vncleane beastes, and of foules, and of euery such as creepeth vpon the earth,

  • 6 By the which thinges the world that then was, perisshed, beyng then ouerrunne with water.

  • 6 And wyll smite them that dwell in this citie, yea both men and cattell shall dye of a great pestilence.

  • 6 Seing thou goest from me, and turnest backwarde, saith the Lorde: therfore I dyd stretche out myne hande against thee to destroy thee, and I haue ben sorie for thee so long that I am weerie.

  • 11 And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more.

  • 15 And I wyll thinke vpon my couenaunt whiche is betweene me and you, and euery liuing creature in all fleshe: and it shall no more come to passe, that waters make a fludde to destroy all fleshe.

  • 28 And therfore shall the earth mourne, and the heauen be sorie aboue: for the thyng that I haue spoken to the prophetes, purposed, and taken vpon me to do, shall not repent me, and I wyll not go from it.

  • 15 If I bryng noysome beastes into the lande, and they spoyle it, and it be so desolate that no man may passe through it for beastes,

  • 8 Behold, the eyes of the Lorde God are vpon the sinful kingdome, and I wil destroy it cleane out of the earth: neuerthelesse, I wil not vtterly destroy the house of Iacob, sayth the Lorde.

  • 6 And Noah was sixe hundreth yere olde, when the fluddes of water came vpon the earth.

  • 1 And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.

  • 10 And God sawe their workes, that they turned from their euil wayes, and he repented of the euill that he saide he woulde do vnto them, and did it not.

  • 20 And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:

  • Jer 18:7-8
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    7 When I take in hande to roote out, to destroy, or to waste away any people or kyngdome:

    8 If that people agaynst whom I haue thus deuised, conuert from their wickednesse, I repent of the plague that I deuised to bryng vpon them.

  • 3 Therfore shall the lande mourne, and all they that dwell therein shalbe rooted out, the beastes of the fielde, the foules of the ayre, and the fisshes in the sea, shalbe consumed.