Genesis 6:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ezek 8:17 : 17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
  • Ezek 28:16 : 16 By the abundance of your trading they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Hab 1:2 : 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear! Even cry out to You of violence, and You will not save!
  • Hab 2:8 : 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the people shall plunder you; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.
  • Hab 2:17 : 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all who dwell therein.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • Rom 2:13 : 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
  • Gen 7:1 : 1 And the LORD said to Noah, "Go, you and all your household, into the ark; for I have seen you as righteous before Me in this generation."
  • Gen 10:9 : 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, 'Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.'
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • 2 Chr 34:27 : 27 Because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place and against the inhabitants of it, and humbled yourself before me, and tore your clothes, and wept before me; I have even heard you also, says the LORD.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
  • Ps 55:9 : 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
  • Jer 6:7 : 7 As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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

  • Gen 6:1-10
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    1And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

    2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

    3And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.

    4There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown.

    5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

    6And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

    7So the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.

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

    9This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

    10And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6By which the world that then existed, being overflowed with water, perished:

  • Gen 6:17
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    17And behold, I Myself am bringing a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.

  • Gen 7:6
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    6And Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:23-24
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    23And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed, both man and cattle, creeping things and birds of the sky; they were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

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

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

  • Gen 7:18-21
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    18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

    19And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.

    20The waters covered them fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

    21And all flesh that moved upon the earth perished, birds, cattle, beasts of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every human being.

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    2And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

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

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    1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

  • Gen 7:10
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    10And it occurred after seven days that the floodwaters were upon the earth.

  • Gen 7:4
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    4For in seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from the face of the earth.

  • Gen 8:2
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    2The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

  • 2 Pet 2:5
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    5And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

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    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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    1And the whole earth had one language and one speech.

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    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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    21And the LORD smelled a pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again destroy every living thing, as I have done.