Genesis 9:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.

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  • Gen 17:13 : 13 He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 And God said, Sarah your wife shall indeed bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.
  • 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Although my house is not so with God; yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He does not make it grow.
  • Isa 54:8-9 : 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer. 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 angry with you, nor rebuke you. 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
  • Jer 32:40 : 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
  • Ps 89:3-4 : 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant, 4 Your seed I will establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.
  • Gen 8:21-22 : 21 And 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. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Gen 9:9-9 : 9 And behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my covenant with you; never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.
  • Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 9:8-15
    8 verses
    92%

    8And God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

    9And behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you;

    10And with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and 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; never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.

    12And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

    13I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

    14And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;

    15And I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

  • Gen 9:17
    88%

    17And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.

  • Gen 8:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

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

  • Isa 54:9
    73%

    9For 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 angry with you, nor rebuke you.

  • Gen 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    5And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.

  • Gen 6:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    18But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

    19And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

  • Gen 8:13-17
    5 verses
    72%

    13And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

    14And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

    15And God spoke to Noah, saying,

    16Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

    17Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, birds, cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth.

  • Gen 9:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

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

    2And the fear and dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.

  • Gen 6:8
    70%

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

  • Gen 7:12
    70%

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

  • Ezek 16:60
    70%

    60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish unto you an everlasting covenant.

  • Gen 8:21
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 7:1
    69%

    1And 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 6:13
    69%

    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 8:6
    69%

    6And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

  • Gen 7:10
    69%

    10And it occurred after seven days that the floodwaters were upon the earth.

  • Gen 8:9-11
    3 verses
    69%

    9But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark.

    10And he waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

    11And the dove came to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

  • Gen 17:7
    69%

    7And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

  • Lev 26:42
    69%

    42Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

  • Gen 7:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    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.

  • Gen 7:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose above the earth.

    18And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark moved on the surface of the waters.

  • Gen 9:28
    67%

    28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

  • Gen 8:19
    67%

    19Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

  • Ezek 16:62
    67%

    62And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD:

  • Gen 7:8
    67%

    8Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,