Genesis 6:7

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Therefore ye Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I haue created, fro man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: for I repent that I haue made them.

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  • Ps 24:1-2 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid. The earth is the Lordes, and all that therein is: the worlde and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it vpon the seas: and established it vpon the floods.
  • Ps 37:20 : 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be consumed as the fatte of lambes: euen with the smoke shall they consume away.
  • Prov 10:27 : 27 The feare of the Lord increaseth the dayes: but the yeeres of the wicked shalbe diminished.
  • Prov 16:4 : 4 The Lord hath made all things for his owne sake: yea, euen the wicked for the day of euill.
  • Jer 4:22-27 : 22 For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge. 23 I haue looked vpon the earth, and loe, it was without forme and voide: and to the heauens, and they had no light. 24 I behelde the mountaines: and loe, they trembled and all the hilles shooke. 25 I behelde, and loe, there was no man, and all the birdes of the heauen were departed. 26 I behelde, and loe, the fruitfull place was a wildernesse, and all the cities thereof were broken downe at the presence of the Lorde, and by his fierce wrath. 27 For thus hath the Lorde saide, The whole lande shall be desolate: yet will I not make a full ende.
  • Jer 12:3-4 : 3 But thou, Lord, knowest me: thou hast seene me, and tried mine heart towarde thee: pull them out like sheepe for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. 4 Howe long shall the lande mourne, and the herbes of euery fielde wither, for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein? the beastes are consumed and the birdes, because they sayd, He wil not see our last ende.
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.
  • Zeph 1:3 : 3 I will destroy man and beast: I wil destroy the foules of the heauen, and the fishes of the sea, and ruines shalbe to the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.
  • Rom 3:20-22 : 20 Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne. 21 But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets, 22 To wit, the righteousnesse of God by the faith of Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpon all that beleeue.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 6:5-6
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    89%

    5When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,

    6Then it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17And I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.

  • Gen 6:11-13
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    11The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with crueltie.

    12Then God looked vpon the earth, and beholde, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way vpon the earth.

    13And God said vnto Noah, An ende of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with crueltie through them: and beholde, I wil destroy them with the earth.

  • Gen 7:4
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    4For seuen dayes hence I will cause it raine vpon the earth fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and all the substance that I haue made, will I destroy from off the earth.

  • Amos 7:3
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    3So the Lord repented for this. It shal not be, saith the Lord.

  • Gen 7:21-23
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    21Then all flesh perished that moued vpon the earth, both foule and cattell and beast, and euery thing that creepeth and moueth vpon the earth, and euery man.

    22Euery thing in whose nostrels the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoeuer they were in the drie land, they died.

    23So he destroyed euery thing that was vpon the earth, from man to beast, to ye creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: they were euen destroyed from the earth; Noah onely remained; & they that were with him in ye Arke.

  • Gen 8:21
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    21And the Lord smelled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.

  • Amos 7:6
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    6So the Lord repented for this. This also shal not be, saith the Lord God.

  • Gen 6:3
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    3Therefore the Lord saide, My Spirit shall not alway striue with man, because he is but flesh, and his dayes shalbe an hundreth & twentie yeeres.

  • Zeph 1:2-3
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    74%

    2I will surely destroy all things from off the land, saith the Lorde.

    3I will destroy man and beast: I wil destroy the foules of the heauen, and the fishes of the sea, and ruines shalbe to the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.

  • Gen 6:8
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    8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Exod 32:14
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    14Then the Lord changed his minde fro the euil, which he threatned to do vnto his people.

  • Ezek 32:13
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    13I will destroy also all the beastes thereof from the great watersides, neither shall the foote of man trouble them any more, nor the hooues of beast trouble them.

  • Ezek 14:19
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    19Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,

  • Gen 1:26
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    26Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.

  • Gen 7:8
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    8Of the cleane beastes, and of the vncleane beastes, and of the foules, and of all that creepeth vpon the earth,

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6Wherefore the worlde that then was, perished, ouerflowed with the water.

  • Jer 21:6
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    6And I will smite the inhabitants of this citie, both man, and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

  • Jer 15:6
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    6Thou hast forsaken me, sayth the Lord, and gone backward: therefore wil I stretch out mine hand against thee, and destroy thee: for I am weary with repenting.

  • Gen 9:11
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    11And my couenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by ye waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.

  • Gen 9:15
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    15Then will I remember my couenant, which is betweene me and you, and betweene euery liuing thing in all flesh, and there shalbe no more waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

  • Jer 4:28
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    28Therefore shall the earth mourne, and the heauens aboue shall be darkened, because I haue pronounced it: I haue thought it, and will not repent, neither will I turne backe from it.

  • Ezek 14:15
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    15If I bring noysome beastes into the lande and they spoyle it, so that it bee desolate, that no man may passe through, because of beastes,

  • Amos 9:8
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    8Beholde, the eyes of the Lord God are vpon the sinfull kingdome, and I will destroy it cleane out of the earth. Neuerthelesse I will not vtterly destroy the house of Iaakob, saith the Lord.

  • Gen 7:6
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    6And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.

  • Gen 7:1
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    1And the Lord said vnto Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me in this age.

  • Jonah 3:10
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    10And God sawe their workes that they turned from their euill wayes: and God repented of the euill that he had said that he woulde doe vnto them, and he did it not.

  • Gen 18:20
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    20Then the Lorde saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,

  • Jer 18:7-8
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    7I will speake suddenly against a nation or against a kingdome to plucke it vp, and to roote it out and to destroy it.

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  • Hos 4:3
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    3Therefore shall the land mourne, and euery one that dwelleth therein, shall be cut off, with the beasts of the fielde, and with the foules of the heauen, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.