Verse 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.
Referenced Verses
- Jer 17:9 : 9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
- Gen 3:17 : 17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Gen 6:5 : 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 6:17 : 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,
- Lev 1:9 : 9 Finally, the one presenting the offering must wash its entrails and its legs in water and the priest must offer all of it up in smoke on the altar– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
- Lev 1:13 : 13 Then the one presenting the offering must wash the entrails and the legs in water, and the priest must present all of it and offer it up in smoke on the altar– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
- Ps 51:5 : 5 Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- 2 Cor 2:15 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing–
- Rom 1:21 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.
- Rom 3:23 : 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
- Ezek 20:41 : 41 When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
- Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
- John 3:6 : 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Eph 2:1-3 : 1 New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins, 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
- Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
- Phil 4:18 : 18 For I have received everything, and I have plenty. I have all I need because I received from Epaphroditus what you sent– a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, very pleasing to God.
- Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
- Job 14:4 : 4 Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
- Lev 1:17 : 17 and tear it open by its wings without dividing it into two parts. Finally, the priest must offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is in the fire– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
- Eccl 7:20 : 20 For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
- Song 4:10-11 : 10 How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice! 11 Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride, honey and milk are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
- Isa 47:12 : 12 Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster.
- Isa 47:15 : 15 They will disappoint you, those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. Each strays off in his own direction, leaving no one to rescue you.”
- Isa 48:8 : 8 You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.
- Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the LORD caused the sin of all of us to attack him.
- Isa 54:9-9 : 9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. 10 Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the LORD, the one who has compassion on you.
- Isa 65:6 : 6 Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,
- Jer 8:6 : 6 I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says,“I have done wrong!” All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle.
- Lev 26:31 : 31 I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.
- Gen 9:11-15 : 11 I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.” 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: 13 I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.
- Exod 29:18 : 18 and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- Exod 29:25 : 25 Then you are to take them from their hands and burn them on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
- Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? 15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, 16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
- Gen 4:12 : 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”
- Gen 5:29 : 29 He named him Noah, saying,“This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
- Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say,“I have kept my heart clean; I am pure from my sin”?
- Jer 18:12 : 12 But they just keep saying,‘We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”
- Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
- Jas 4:1-2 : 1 Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? 2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;
- 2 Pet 3:6-7 : 6 Through these things the world existing at that time was destroyed when it was deluged with water. 7 But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
- 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
- Amos 5:21-22 : 21 “I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies! 22 Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.
- Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.