Genesis 6:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And, 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.

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  • 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;
  • Gen 7:4 : 4 For 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.
  • Gen 7:21-23 : 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: 22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died. 23 And 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.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
  • Ps 29:10 : 10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 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.
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters, [yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;
  • Isa 54:9 : 9 For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
  • Ezek 5:8 : 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
  • Ezek 6:3 : 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
  • Ezek 34:11 : 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
  • Ezek 34:20 : 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].
  • Amos 9:6 : 6 [It is] he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.
  • Matt 24:39 : 39 ‹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.›
  • Luke 17:27 : 27 ‹They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.›
  • Rom 5:12-14 : 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
  • Rom 5:21 : 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 8:20-22 : 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
  • Gen 9:9 : 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
  • Exod 14:17 : 17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
  • Lev 26:28 : 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
  • Deut 32:39 : 39 ¶ See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.
  • Job 22:16 : 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
  • Gen 7:15 : 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
  • Gen 7:17 : 17 ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Gen 6:7 : 7 And 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.
  • Gen 6:13 : 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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  • Gen 6:11-13
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    11¶ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

    12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

    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.

  • Gen 7:17-24
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    17¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

    18And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

    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.

    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:

    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.

    24And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

  • Gen 7:4
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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.

  • Gen 6:5-7
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    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.

  • Gen 6:18-20
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    18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

    19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

    20Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.

  • Gen 9:15-17
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    15And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

    16And 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.

    17And 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 9:10-11
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    10And with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

    11And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 8:17
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    17Bring forth with thee every living thing that [is] with thee, of all flesh, [both] of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:6
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    6And Noah [was] six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:10-12
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    10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

    11¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

    12And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 8:1-3
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    1¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

    2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

    3And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

  • Gen 7:15
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    15And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.

  • Gen 7:1
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    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.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5And 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;

  • 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,

  • Gen 6:3
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    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.

  • Gen 6:16
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    16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it.