Genesis 6:13

So God said to Noah, “I have determined to put an end to all living beings, for the earth is filled with their acts of injustice; I am going to destroy them from the earth.

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In The King James Version

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

In Context

12God looked at the earth and saw that it was corrupt; all living things on the earth had become corrupt in their ways.

14Make yourself an ark of cypress wood. Construct rooms in the ark, and coat it within and without with pitch.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11God saw that the earth was corrupt and full of violence.

Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are akin, weapons of violence are their swords. I will not enter into their council,

Hosea 4:1Hear the Lord’s message, Israelites, for the Lord has brought charges against the inhabitants of the land, for there is no fidelity, nor true love, nor knowledge of God in the land,

Hebrews 11:7It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows on faith.

2 Peter 3:6and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of 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 →

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