Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
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12God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 6:11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 49:5“Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.
Jeremiah 51:13You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.
Hosea 4:1Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hebrews 11:7By faith Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
2 Peter 3:6by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
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 →