Genesis 6:11
The earth 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], son of man? Is it a light 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 turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
- Ezek 28:16 : 16 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
- Hab 1:2 : 2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?
- Hab 2:8 : 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
- Hab 2:17 : 17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
- Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Rom 2:13 : 13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
- Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
- Gen 7:1 : 1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
- Gen 10:9 : 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
- Gen 13:13 : 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
- 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 its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you," says Yahweh.
- Ps 11:5 : 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
- Ps 55:9 : 9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- Ps 140:11 : 11 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
- Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
- Jer 6:7 : 7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
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- Gen 6:12-132 verses89%
12 God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Gen 6:1-1010 verses79%
1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 Yahweh 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 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.
7 Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."
8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
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17 I, even I, do bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
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6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.
- Gen 7:23-242 verses70%
23 Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
24 The waters prevailed on the earth one hundred fifty days.
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12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
- Gen 7:18-214 verses70%
18 The waters prevailed, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.
19 The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
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2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
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1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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10 It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.
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4 In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
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2 The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
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5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
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2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.