Genesis 6:12

World English Bible (2000)

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:15-17 : 15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden, 16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, 17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
  • Ps 53:2-3 : 2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. 3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
  • Luke 3:6 : 6 All flesh will see God's salvation.'"
  • 1 Pet 3:19-20 : 19 in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 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;
  • Ps 14:1-3 : 1 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. 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God. 3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.
  • Ps 33:13-14 : 13 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
  • Gen 6:4-5 : 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.
  • Gen 6:8 : 8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
  • 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 7:21 : 21 All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
  • Gen 9:12 : 12 God said, "This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
  • Gen 9:16-17 : 16 The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." 17 God said to Noah, "This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
  • Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

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    11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

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    13God 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 6:1-8
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    1It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

    2that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

    3Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

    4The 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.

    5Yahweh 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.

    6Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

    7Yahweh 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."

    8But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

  • Gen 6:17
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    17I, 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.

  • Gen 7:19-23
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    19The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

    20The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

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    22All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.

    23Every 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.

  • 2 Pet 3:6
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    6by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

  • Gen 8:21
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    21Yahweh 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.

  • Gen 1:31
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    31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

  • Isa 24:5-6
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    5The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

    6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

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    6Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

  • Gen 7:12
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    12The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

  • Gen 7:8
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    8Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground

  • Gen 7:4
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    4In 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."

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • Ps 14:3
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    3They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

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    1Yahweh said to Noah, "Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

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    15all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Hos 4:3
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    3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

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    23and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

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    20Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,