Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.
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- Job 22:15-17 : 15 Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked– 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations? 17 They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Job 33:27 : 27 That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
- Ps 53:2-3 : 2 God looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God. 3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
- Prov 15:3 : 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.
- Luke 3:6 : 6 and all humanity will see the salvation of God.’”
- 1 Pet 3:19-20 : 19 In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.
- 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
- Ps 14:1-3 : 1 For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right. 2 The LORD looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God. 3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
- Ps 33:13-14 : 13 The LORD watches from heaven; he sees all people. 14 From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.
- Gen 6:4-5 : 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days(and also after this) when the sons of God would sleep with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men. 5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
- Gen 6:8 : 8 But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.
- Gen 7:1 : 1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
- Gen 7:21 : 21 And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.
- Gen 9:12 : 12 And God said,“This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:
- Gen 9:16-17 : 16 When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.” 17 So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”
- Gen 18:21 : 21 that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”
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11 The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.
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13 So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.
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1 God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
3 So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days(and also after this) when the sons of God would sleep with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
5 But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.
6 The LORD regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.
7 So the LORD said,“I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth– everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”
8 But Noah found favor in the sight of the LORD.
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17 I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
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19 The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.
20 The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.
21 And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.
22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
23 So the LORD destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
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6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water.
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21 And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself,“I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
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31 God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
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5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.
6 So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.
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6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
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12 And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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8 Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
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4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”
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23 “I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.
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3 Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!
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1 The LORD said to Noah,“Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
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15 all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.
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3 Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.
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23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
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1 God’s Covenant with Humankind through Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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20 So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant