Genesis 6:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

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  • Job 22:15-17 : 15 ¶ Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;
  • Ps 53:2-3 : 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 ¶ The eyes of the LORD [are] in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
  • Luke 3:6 : 6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
  • 1 Pet 3:19-20 : 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
  • Ps 14:1-3 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
  • Ps 33:13-14 : 13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
  • Gen 6:4-5 : 4 ¶ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown. 5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
  • Gen 6:8 : 8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
  • Gen 7:1 : 1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
  • Gen 7:21 : 21 ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
  • Gen 9:12 : 12 ¶ And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations:
  • Gen 9:16-17 : 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This [is] the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth.
  • Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

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    11¶ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

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    13¶ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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    1¶ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

    2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

    3¶ And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

    4¶ There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.

    5And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.

    6¶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

    7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

    8¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

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    17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven; [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die.

  • Gen 7:19-23
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    19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.

    20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

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    22All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.

    23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.

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    6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 8:21
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    21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

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    31¶ And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

  • Isa 24:5-6
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    5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

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    6And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:12
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    12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 7:8
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    8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

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    4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

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    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

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    15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

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    23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

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