Genesis 6:13
So God told Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all people on earth because they are all violent and lawless. I myself am going to destroy all of them, along with the earth.
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12God recognized that the corruption in the world was due to everyone on earth living corrupt lives.
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Genesis 6:11God saw how corrupt the whole world had become, full of violent and lawless people.
Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are two of the same kind—they use their weapons for destructive violence.
Jeremiah 51:13You people who live beside by many waters, and have so much wealth, this is the time of your end—your life will be cut short.
Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the Lord, people of Israel, for the Lord has an accusation against the inhabitants of the land! “There is no faithfulness, no loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.
Hebrews 11:7Noah trusted God, and was warned by him about things that had never happened before. Because Noah paid serious attention to what God said, he constructed an ark to save his family. By trusting God, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and received the reward of being set right by God.
2 Peter 3:6It was through water that the world that then existed was destroyed—through being flooded by water.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:12-13
Depravity of the World. ( b. c. 2448.) 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. The wickedness of that generation is here again spoken of, either as a foil to Noah's piety—he was just and perfect, when all the earth was corrupt; or as a further justification of God's resolution to destroy the world, which he was now about to communicate to his servant Noah. 1.… Read the whole commentary →