Genesis 6
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Now it came to pass, a when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
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that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they b took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
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And the LORD said, c "My Spirit shall not d strive with man forever, e for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
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There were giants on the earth in those f days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
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Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every g intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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And h the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and i He was grieved in His j heart.
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So the LORD said, "I will k 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."
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But Noah l found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
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This is the genealogy of Noah. m Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah n walked with God.
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And Noah begot three sons: o Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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The earth also was corrupt p before God, and the earth was q filled with violence.
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So God r looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for s all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
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And God said to Noah, t "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; u and behold, v I will destroy them with the earth.
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"Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.
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"And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
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"You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
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w "And behold, I Myself am bringing x floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall y die.
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"But I will establish My z covenant with you; and a you shall go into the ark - you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
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"And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring b two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
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"Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind c will come to you to keep them alive.
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"And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."
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d Thus Noah did; e according to all that f God commanded him, so he did.
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Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
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Deuteronomy 7:3
Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.
Deuteronomy 7:4
For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
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Genesis 41:38
And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?
Galatians 5:16
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
1 Peter 3:19
By whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison.
1 Peter 3:20
Who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
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2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
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Psalms 78:39
For He remembered that they were but flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again.
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Numbers 13:32
And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
Numbers 13:33
"There we saw the giants ( the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
Luke 17:27
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
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Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
Psalms 14:1 - 3
The fool has said in his heart, " There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.
Proverbs 6:18
A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
Romans 1:28 - 32
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.
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Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I ha...
1 Samuel 15:11
I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as kin...
1 Samuel 15:29
"And also the Strength of Israel will not lie n...
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out His hand over ...
Jeremiah 18:7 - 10
The instant I speak concerning a nation and con...
Zechariah 8:14
For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Just as I det...
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Psalms 78:40
How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them.
Ephesians 4:30
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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Mark 3:5
And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.
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Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."
Genesis 7:23
So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
Deuteronomy 28:63
And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.
Psalms 7:11
God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day.
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Genesis 19:19
Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.
Exodus 33:12
Then Moses said to the LORD, "See, You say to me, 'Bring up this people.' But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.
Exodus 33:17
So the LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.
Luke 1:30
Then the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Acts 7:46
Who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.
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Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
Ezekiel 14:14
Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness," says the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 14:20
"even though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness."
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
2 Peter 2:5
And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.
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Genesis 5:22
After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
2 Kings 23:3
Then the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant.
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Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark -
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Deuteronomy 31:29
"For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands."
Judges 2:19
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.
Romans 2:13
(for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified.
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Ezekiel 8:17
And He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose.
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Psalms 14:2
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
Psalms 53:2
God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
Psalms 53:3
Every one of them has turned aside; They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.
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Psalms 14:1 - 3
The fool has said in his heart, " There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.
Isaiah 28:8
For all tables are full of vomit and filth; No place is clean.
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Isaiah 34:1 - 4
Come near, you nations, to hear; And heed, you ...
Jeremiah 51:13
O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in tre...
Ezekiel 7:2
And you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to ...
Ezekiel 7:3
Now the end has come upon you, And I will send ...
Amos 8:2
And He said, "Amos, what do you see?" So I said...
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand; therefore...
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Genesis 6:17
And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters 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.
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2 Peter 2:4 - 10
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment.
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Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."
Genesis 7:21 - 23
And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
2 Peter 2:5
And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.
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2 Peter 3:6
By which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.
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Luke 16:22
So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
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Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 9:17
And 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.
Genesis 17:7
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 your descendants after you.
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Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:7
So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:13
On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark -
1 Peter 3:20
Who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
2 Peter 2:5
And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.
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Genesis 7:2
You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female.
Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth.
Genesis 7:9
Two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:14 - 16
They and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
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Genesis 7:9
Two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:15
And they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
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Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Genesis 12:5
Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
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Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
Genesis 7:9
Two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:16
So those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.
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1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
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