Genesis 4 - 6
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Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord."
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And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.
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In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of u the fruit of the ground,
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and Abel also brought of v the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord w had regard for Abel and his offering,
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but x for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
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The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?
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y If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. z Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."
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Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and a killed him.
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Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, b "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
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And the Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood c is crying to me from the ground.
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And now d you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth."
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Cain said to the Lord, "My e punishment is greater than I can bear.
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Behold, f you have driven me today away from the ground, and g from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, h and whoever finds me will kill me."
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Then the Lord said to him, "Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him i sevenfold." And the Lord j put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.
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Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
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To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.
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And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
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His brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
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Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
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Lamech said to his wives:
"Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:
I have killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.
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k If Cain's revenge is sevenfold,
then Lamech's is seventy-sevenfold."
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And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."
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To l Seth also a son was born, and he called his name m Enosh. At that time people began n to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 5
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This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, o he made him in the likeness of God.
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Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
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When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and p named him Seth.
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q The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, r and he died.
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When Seth had lived 105 years, s he fathered Enosh.
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Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.
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When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.
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Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.
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When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.
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Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.
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When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered Jared.
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Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.
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When Jared had lived 162 years he fathered t Enoch.
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Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.
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When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.
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Enoch u walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.
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Enoch u walked with God, and he was not, v for God took him.
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When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.
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Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.
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When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son
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and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground w that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."
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Lamech lived after he fathered Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.
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After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered x Shem, Ham, and y Japheth.
Genesis 6
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When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,
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the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
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Then the Lord said, z "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, a for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years."
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
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b The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every c intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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And d the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it e grieved him to his heart.
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So the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."
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But Noah f found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
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These are the generations of Noah. g Noah was a righteous man, h blameless in his generation. Noah i walked with God.
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And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
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And God j saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, k for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
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And God said to Noah, l "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
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This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.
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Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.
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m For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.
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But n I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come 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 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 according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.
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Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them."
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o Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.
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Leviticus 2:12
As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma.
Numbers 18:12
All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the Lord, I give to you.
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Exodus 13:12
You shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the Lord 's.
Numbers 18:17
But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce.
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Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
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Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12 - 13
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
Isaiah 3:10 - 11
Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Romans 2:6 - 11
He will render to each one according to his works:
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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
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Matthew 23:35
So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
1 John 3:12
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.
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John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
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Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
Revelation 6:10
They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
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Deuteronomy 27:24
"'Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Numbers 35:33
You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
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Genesis 19:15
As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.
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Job 15:20 - 24
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
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2 Kings 24:20
For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Psalms 51:11
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalms 143:7
Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.
Jeremiah 52:3
For because of the anger of the Lord things came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
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Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.
Numbers 35:19
The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
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Psalms 79:12
Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
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Ezekiel 9:4
And the Lord said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.
Ezekiel 9:6
Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house.
Revelation 14:9
And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand.
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.
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Genesis 4:15
Then the Lord said to him, "Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.
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1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enosh.
Luke 3:38
The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
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Genesis 5:6
When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.
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Psalms 116:17
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.
Zephaniah 3:9
For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'
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Genesis 1:26 - 27
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
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Genesis 4:25
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.
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Genesis 5:4 - 32
The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.
1 Chronicles 1:1 - 4
Adam, Seth, Enosh.
Luke 3:36 - 38
The son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech.
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Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
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Genesis 4:26
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
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Jude 1:14
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones.
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Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Malachi 2:6
True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
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Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
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Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
2 Kings 2:11
And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
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Genesis 6:10
And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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Genesis 10:21
To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.
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1 Peter 3:19 - 20
In which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison.
Nehemiah 9:30
Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Galatians 5:16 - 17
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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Psalms 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
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Psalms 14:2 - 3
The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
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Genesis 8:21
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, t...
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? ...
Job 15:14
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is ...
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in...
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and de...
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder...
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory...
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1 Samuel 15:11
I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
2 Samuel 24:16
And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Joel 2:13
And rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
1 Samuel 15:29
And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.
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Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself 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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Genesis 19:19
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
Exodus 33:12 - 13
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 favor in my sight.
Exodus 33:16 - 17
For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?
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Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for 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 but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 14:20
Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
2 Peter 2:5
If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
Job 1:8
And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
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Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
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Psalms 14:2 - 3
The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
Psalms 53:2 - 3
God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
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Job 22:15 - 17
Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?
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Ezekiel 7:2 - 3
And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 7:6
An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.
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Genesis 7:4
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.
2 Peter 2:5
If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
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Genesis 9:9
Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you.
Genesis 9:11
I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.
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Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Exodus 40:16
This Moses did; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.
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