Genesis 6 Cross References - CAB

^{1 (6:2)} And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, ^{2 (6:3)} that the sons of God, having seen the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose. ^{3 (6:4)} And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men forever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be one hundred and twenty years. ^{4 (6:5)} Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown. ^{5 (6:6)} And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually, ^{6 (6:7)} that God took it to heart that He had made man upon the earth, and He pondered it deeply. ^{7 (6:8)} And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man and beast, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them. ^{8 (6:9)} But Noah found grace before the Lord God. ^{9 (6:10)} And these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man; being perfect in his generation; Noah was well pleasing to God. ^{10 (6:11)} And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ^{11 (6:12)} But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity. ^{12 (6:13)} And the Lord God saw the earth, that it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. ^{13 (6:14)} And the Lord God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and behold, I shall destroy them and the earth. ^{14 (6:15)} Therefore make for yourself an ark of square timber; you shall make the ark in compartments, and you shall pitch it within and without with pitch. ^{15 (6:16)} And thus shall you make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it. ^{16 (6:17)} You shall narrow the ark in making it, and in a cubit above you shall finish it, and the door of the ark you shall make on the side; with lower, second, and third stories you shall make it. ^{17 (6:18)} And behold, I shall bring a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and whatsoever things are upon the earth shall die. ^{18 (6:19)} And I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall enter into the ark, and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. ^{19 (6:20)} And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, you shall bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that you may feed them with yourself: male and female they shall be. ^{20 (6:21)} Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to you, male and female, to be fed with you. ^{21 (6:22)} And you shall take to yourself of all kinds of food which you eat, and you shall gather them to yourself, and it shall be for you and them to eat. ^{22 (6:23)} And Noah did everything that the Lord God commanded him.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so. ²¹ And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind; and God saw that they were good. ²² And God blessed them saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth. ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. ²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, cattle and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.

²⁸ And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth. ²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. ³⁰ And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so.

⁴ This is the book of the generations of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

⁷ And God formed the man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

¹⁹ And God formed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and He brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it.

^{6 (3:7)} And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

²⁶ And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enosh: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.

¹ This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God He made him:

²² And Enoch was well-pleasing to God. After his begetting of Methuselah, He walked with God two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

²⁴ And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

^{32 (6:1)} And Noah was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons; Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

^{4 (6:5)} Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.

^{4 (6:5)} Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown. ^{5 (6:6)} And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

^{7 (6:8)} And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man and beast, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them. ^{8 (6:9)} But Noah found grace before the Lord God.

^{11 (6:12)} But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity. ^{12 (6:13)} And the Lord God saw the earth, that it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. ^{13 (6:14)} And the Lord God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and behold, I shall destroy them and the earth.

¹ And the Lord God said to Noah, Enter therefore, you and all your family, into the ark, for I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation. ² You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, male and female, and of the unclean animals take two each, male and female. ³ And also seven each of the clean flying creatures of the sky, male and female, and also pairs of all unclean flying creatures, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth. ⁴ For yet seven days having passed I shall bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I shall blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth. ⁵ And Noah did all things, whatever the Lord God commanded him.

⁷ And then Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, went into the ark, because of the water of the flood. ⁸ And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth,

⁸ And of clean flying creatures and of unclean flying creatures, and of clean cattle and of unclean cattle, and of all things that creep upon the earth, ⁹ pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

⁹ pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

⁹ pairs went in to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And it came to pass after the seven days that the water of the flood came upon the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were opened. ¹² And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³ On that very day entered Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.

¹³ On that very day entered Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark. ¹⁴ And all the wild beasts after their kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every reptile moving itself on the earth after its kind, and every flying bird after its kind, ¹⁵ went in to Noah into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

¹⁵ went in to Noah into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.

¹⁶ And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him. ¹⁷ And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains. ²¹ And all flesh that moved upon the earth died; of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.

²¹ And all flesh that moved upon the earth died; of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man. ²² And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died. ²³ And God blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noah was left alone, and those with him in the ark.

²³ And God blotted out every offspring which was upon the face of the earth, both man and beast, and reptiles, and birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth, and Noah was left alone, and those with him in the ark.

⁶ And it came to pass after forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

¹⁷ And all the wild beasts, as many as are with you, and all flesh, both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with you: be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

²¹ And the Lord God smelled an aroma of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will never again curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will never again smite all living flesh as I have done.

⁹ Behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

⁹ Behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you, ¹⁰ and with every living creature with you, of birds and of beasts, and with all the wild beasts of the earth, as many as are with you, of all that came out of the ark. ¹¹ And I will establish My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh die by the water of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood of water to destroy all the earth. ¹² And the Lord God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I set between Me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations.

¹² And the Lord God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I set between Me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations. ¹³ I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between Me and the earth. ¹⁴ And it shall be when I gather clouds upon the earth, that My rainbow shall be seen in the cloud. ¹⁵ And I shall remember My covenant, which is between Me and you, and between every living soul in all flesh, and there shall no longer be water for a deluge, so as to blot out all flesh. ¹⁶ And My rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between Me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth.

¹⁶ And My rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look to remember the everlasting covenant between Me and the earth, and between every living soul in all flesh, which is upon the earth. ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have made between Me and all flesh, which is upon the earth.

¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

⁹ He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As Nimrod the giant hunter before the Lord.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

¹³ But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before Me, and be blameless.

⁴ And I, behold! My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of a many nations.

⁷ And I will establish My covenant between you and your seed after you, to their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be your God, and the God of your seed after you.

²¹ But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time, in the next year.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraham, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.

²⁰ And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has been increased towards Me, and their sins are very great. ²¹ I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to Me, and if not, I will know.

²¹ I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to Me, and if not, I will know.

¹⁹ since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness, in what you do towards me that my soul may live, — but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die.

³ and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.

⁴⁶ And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of the sons of Heth; if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of this land, where then should I live?

⁶ And he committed all that he had into the hands of Joseph; and he knew not of anything that belonged to him, except the bread which he himself ate. And Joseph was handsome in form, and exceedingly beautiful in countenance. ⁷ And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, Lie with me.

¹⁵ And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, even Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;

⁵ Simeon and Levi, brothers, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.

³ And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the reeds by the river.

²² And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My firstborn. ²³ And I said to you, Send away My people, that they may serve Me: now if you will not send them away, see, I will kill your firstborn son.

¹⁷ And behold, I will harden the heart of Pharaoh and of all the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will be glorified upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, and on his chariots and his horses.

¹⁴ And the Lord was prevailed upon to preserve His people.

¹² And Moses said to the Lord, See, You say to me, Lead on this people; but You have not shown me whom You will send with me, but You have said to me, I know you above all, and you have favor with Me. ¹³ If then I have found favor in Your sight, reveal Yourself to me, that I may evidently see You; that I may find favor in Your sight, and that I may know that this great nation is Your people. ¹⁴ And He said, I Myself will go before you, and give you rest. ¹⁵ Then he said to Him, If You go not up with us Yourself, do not bring me up from here. ¹⁶ And how shall it be surely known, that both I and this people have found favor with You, except only if You go with us? So both I and Your people shall be glorified beyond all the nations, as many as are upon the earth. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I will also do for you this thing which you have spoken; for you have found grace before Me, and I know you above all.

¹⁶ and you should take of their daughters to your sons, and you should give of your daughters to their sons; and your daughters should go a whoring after their gods, and your sons should go a whoring after their gods.

¹⁶ And Moses did all things whatsoever the Lord commanded him, so did he.

¹⁹ And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses.

²¹ And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and put on it the covering of the veil, and covered the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²³ And he put on it the showbread before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

²⁵ And he put on it its lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

²⁷ and he burned on it incense of composition, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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²⁸ then will I walk contrary to you in fury, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins.

¹⁷ And I will go down, and speak there with you; and I will take of the spirit that is upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with you the burden of the people, and you shall not bear them alone.

³³ And there we saw the giants; and we were as mere insects in our own sight, and so we were before them.

² and rose up before Moses, and two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Israel, chiefs of the assembly, chosen counselors, and men of renown.

¹⁹ God is not as a man that He should waver, nor as a son of man that He should be threatened; shall He say and not perform? Shall He speak and not keep His word?

²⁰ It shall be accounted a land for the Rephaim, for the Rephaim dwelt there before, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim. ²¹ A great nation and populous, and mightier than you, as also the Anakim; yet the Lord destroyed them from before them, and they inherited their land, and they dwelt there instead of them until this day.

¹¹ For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.

²⁹ O that there were such a heart in them, that they should fear Me, and keep My commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their sons forever!

³ neither shall you contract marriages with them; you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son. ⁴ For he will draw away your son from Me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy you.

³² Every word that I command you this day, you shall observe to do: you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.

¹ You are the children of the Lord your God: you shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.

¹⁹ And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with him:

²⁹ They had not sense to understand; let them reserve these things against the time to come.

³⁶ For the Lord shall judge His people, and shall be comforted over His servants; for He saw that they were utterly weakened, and failed in the hostile invasion, and have become feeble.

³⁹ Behold I, even I, am He, and there is no God beside Me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of My hands.

¹² For if you shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you, ¹³ know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you are destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.

¹¹ I greatly regret that I have made Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following Me, and has not kept My word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.

²⁹ And Israel shall be divided in two: and God will not turn nor repent, for He is not as a man to repent.

³⁵ And Samuel did not see Saul again till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned after Saul, and the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

⁴ And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was four cubits and a span.

¹⁶ And it came to pass as the ark arrived at the City of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked through the window, and saw King David dancing and playing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

² And it came to pass toward evening, that David arose off his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

¹⁵ And there was yet war between the Philistines and Israel. And David went down and his servants with him, and they fought with the Philistines, and David went. ¹⁶ And Ishbi-Benob, who was of the sons of Rapha, and the head of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, who also was dressed with a club, even he thought to kill David. ¹⁷ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore, saying, You shall not any longer go out with us to battle, and you shall not quench the lamp of Israel. ¹⁸ And after this there was a battle again with the Philistines in Gath. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph of the sons of Rapha. ¹⁹ And there was a battle in Gob with the Philistines; and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite; and the staff of his spear was as a weaver's beam. ²⁰ And there was yet a battle in Gath. And there was a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands and the toes of his feet were six on each, twenty-four in number: and he also was born to Rapha. ²¹ And he defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimei brother of David, killed him. ²² These four were born descendants of the giants in Gath, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

¹⁶ And the angel of the Lord stretched out His hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, and the Lord relented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough now, withhold your hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

⁶ And Solomon said, You have dealt very mercifully with Your servant David my father according as he walked before You in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You, and You have kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as it is this day.

³⁰ Now when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel has heard of it, and colored her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out through the window.

¹⁵ And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice; withhold your hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁷ But they removed not the high places; they still existed in Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

² And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

²⁷ forasmuch as your heart was ashamed, and you were humbled before Me when you heard My words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and you were humbled before Me, and you tore your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard, says the Lord.

¹ And when these things were finished, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands in their abominations, even the Cannanite, the Hittites, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, and the Moserite and the Amorite. ² For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and their sons, and the holy seed has passed among the nations of the lands, and the hand of the rulers has been first in this transgression.

¹² And now give not your daughters to their sons, and take not of their daughters for your sons, neither shall you ever seek their peace or their goods, that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and transmit it as an inheritance to your children forever.

³⁰ Yet You had patience with them for many years, and testified to them by Your Spirit by the hand of Your prophets: but they hearkened not; so You gave them into the hand of the nations of the land.

²⁴ And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language. ²⁵ And I strove with them and cursed them; and I struck some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, and you shall not take of their daughters to your sons. ²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside. ²⁷ So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, to marry strange wives.

¹ There was a certain man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from everything evil.

⁸ And the Lord said to him, Have you diligently considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on all the earth, a blameless man, true, godly, abstaining from everything evil?

⁴ For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.

¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

¹⁵ Will you not mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden? ¹⁶ Who were seized before their time — their foundations are as an overflowing stream.

¹⁶ Who were seized before their time — their foundations are as an overflowing stream. ¹⁷ Who say, What will the Lord do to us? Or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.

²⁷ Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? And He has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

⁴¹ And who has prepared food for the raven? For its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.

^{20 (40:15)} And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

⁵ The Lord tests the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and have become abominable in their devices; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one.

¹ For the end, A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and have become abominable in their devices; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one. ² The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

² The Lord looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. ³ They have all gone out of the way, they have together become corrupt, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

³ They have all gone out of the way, they have together become corrupt, there is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have used deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. ⁴ Will not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they would eat bread? They have not called upon the Lord.

¹ A Psalm of David on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord's and all its fullness; the world, and all that dwell in it. ² He has founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the rivers.

¹⁰ The Lord will dwell on the waterflood; and the Lord will sit as king forever.

¹³ The Lord looks out of heaven; He beholds all the sons of men. ¹⁴ He looks down from His dwelling place on all the inhabitants of the earth;

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

⁶ Your righteousness is as the mountains of God, Your judgments are as a great deep; O Lord, You will preserve men and beasts.

²⁰ For the sinners shall perish; and the enemies of the Lord at the moment of their being honored and exalted have utterly vanished like smoke.

³⁷ Maintain innocence, and behold uprightness; for there is a remnant to the peaceable man.

² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. ³ They have all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.

⁹ Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues, for I have seen iniquity and gainsaying in the city.

³⁹ And He remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not. ⁴⁰ How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, and anger Him in a dry land!

¹³ If My people had hearkened to Me, if Israel had walked in My ways,

⁶ I have said, You are gods; and all of you children of the Most High. ⁷ But you die as men, and fall as one of the princes.

¹¹ For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

³ The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices, ⁴ at the voices of many waters; the billows of the sea are wonderful; the Lord is wonderful in high places.

¹⁰ Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

²⁷ All wait upon You, to give them their food in due season. ²⁸ When You have given it to them, they will gather it; and when You have opened Your hand, they shall all be filled with good.

⁴⁵ And He remembered His covenant, and relented according to the multitude of His mercy.

³⁴ a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

⁴ The Lord has sworn, and will not relent, You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

¹⁵⁸ I beheld men acting foolishly, and I pined away; for they kept not Your oracles.

²⁵ Who gives food to all flesh; for His mercy endures forever.

¹¹ A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

¹⁶ You open Your hands, and fill every living thing with pleasure.

²⁰ The Lord preserves all that love Him: but all sinners He will utterly destroy.

⁹ and gives cattle their food, and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

⁴ so shall you find favor; and provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

¹⁸ But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go forth and shine, until the day has fully come.

¹⁸ a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, are hateful to God.

³⁵ For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and in them is prepared favor from the Lord.

²⁷ The fear of the Lord adds length of days, but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.

² He that has found favor with the Lord is made better, but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.

³ The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place.

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²⁰ For there is not a righteous man in the earth who will do good, and not sin.

²⁹ But behold, this have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.

³ There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead.

⁴ What shall I do anymore to My vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter into your closets, shut your door, hide yourself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord has passed away.

¹⁸ And if you had hearkened to My commandments, then would your peace have been like a river, and your righteousness as a wave of the sea.

¹² I, even I, am He that comforts you; consider who you are, that you were afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who have withered as grass.

⁹ From the time of the water of Noah this is My purpose; as I swore to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be angry with you, neither when you are threatened,

¹⁸ And injustice shall no more be heard in your land, nor destruction nor misery in your coasts; but your walls shall be called Salvation, and your gates Sculptured Work.

¹⁰ But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

¹⁶ For You are our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do You, O Lord, our Father, deliver us; Your name has been upon us from the beginning.

¹⁴ Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that you may be saved; how long will your grievous thoughts be within you?

²² For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have not known. ²³ I looked upon the earth, and behold, it was not; and to the sky, and there was no light in it.

²³ I looked upon the earth, and behold, it was not; and to the sky, and there was no light in it. ²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.

²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion. ²⁵ I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were scared.

²⁵ I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were scared. ²⁶ I saw, and behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of His fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.

²⁶ I saw, and behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of His fierce anger they were utterly destroyed. ²⁷ Thus says the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.

²⁷ Thus says the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end. ²⁸ For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above. For I have spoken, and I will not relent; I have purposed, and I will not turn back from it.

⁷ As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.

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¹¹ Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to Me, but I will not listen to them.

³ But You, O Lord, know me; You have tested my heart before You; purify them for the day of their slaughter. ⁴ How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, because the wickedness of them that dwell in it? The beasts and birds are utterly destroyed, because the people said, God shall not see our ways.

⁹ The heart is deep beyond all things, and it constitutes the man, and who can know him?

⁸ and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I relent of the disasters which I purposed to do to them. ⁹ And if I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant it; ¹⁰ and they do evil before Me, so as not to heed My voice, then will I relent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah and all Judah in any way kill him? Was it not that they feared the Lord, and they made supplication before the Lord, and the Lord relented from the doom which He had pronounced against them? But we have wrought great evil against our own souls.

² Thus says the Lord: I found him warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: therefore go and do not destroy Israel.

¹³ dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures. Assuredly your end has come, into your inward parts.

⁸ Behold, I am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

³ and you shall say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests: Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.

² Thus says the Lord: An end has come to the land of Israel, the end has come on the four corners of the land. ³ Now the end has come upon you, and I will send judgment upon you: and I will take vengeance on your ways, and will recompense all your abominations upon you. ⁴ My eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy, for I will recompense your way upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁵ For thus says the Lord; Behold, the end has come. ⁶ The end has come on you,

⁹ And He said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practice here.

¹² And He said to me, You have seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber; because they have said, The Lord does not see; the Lord has forsaken the earth.

¹⁷ And He said to me, Son of man, you have seen this. Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to practice the iniquities which they have practiced here? For they have filled the land with iniquity; and behold, these are as scorners.

¹⁴ And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they alone would be delivered by their righteousness, says the Lord.

²⁰ and should Noah, Daniel, and Job be in the midst of it, as I live, says the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.

¹⁶ Of the abundance of your merchandise you have filled your storehouses with iniquity, and have sinned. Therefore you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire.

¹¹ Say to them, Thus says the Lord: As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn heartily from your way; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

¹¹ For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will seek out My sheep, and I will visit them.

²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep.

¹⁶ And the windows were latticed, giving light round about to the three stories, so as to look through. And the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and so was the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window shutters folded back in three parts for one to look through.

³ ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, with three porches fronting one another.

¹ Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. ² Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood. ³ Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

¹⁴ For I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Judah. And I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

⁸ How shall I deal with you, O Ephraim? How shall I protect you, O Israel? What shall I do with you? I will make you as Adamah, and as Zeboiim; My heart is turned at once, My repentance is powerfully excited.

¹³ and tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is merciful and compassionate, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and relenting of evil.

² And He said, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A fowler's basket. And the Lord said to me, The end has come upon My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.

⁶ It is He that builds His ascent up to the sky, and establishes His promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is His name.

¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God relented of the evil which He had said He would do to them; and He did it not.

² How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and You will not hear? How long shall I cry out to You being injured, and You will not save?

⁴ If he should draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by My faith.

⁸ Because you have plundered many nations, all the nations that are left shall plunder you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

¹⁷ For the ungodliness of Lebanon shall cover you, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay you, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

³ Let man and cattle be cut off; let the birds of the air and the fish of the sea be cut off; and the ungodly shall fail, and I will take away the transgressors from the face of the land, says the Lord.

¹¹ Judah has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which He delighted in, and has gone after other gods.

¹⁵ And did he not do well? And there was the residue of his spirit. But you said, What does God seek but a seed? But take heed to your own spirit, and forsake not the wife of your youth.

⁶ For I am the Lord your God, and I change not;

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap, nor do they gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they?

²⁴ "Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock: ²⁵ and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and fell against that house; and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house on the sand: ²⁷ and the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And its fall was great."

¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

³⁸ For just as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they didn't know a thing until the flood came and took them all away, so also shall be the coming of the Son of Man.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things come from within and defile a man."

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

³⁰ Then the angel said to her, "Fear not, Mary, for you have found grace with God.

²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

⁶ and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.' "

²⁵ When once the Master of the house has risen up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and answering He will say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from.'

²⁷ They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

⁴¹ And as He drew near, seeing the city, He wept over it, ⁴² saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things pertaining to your peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.

⁵⁰ And behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, a good and just man

⁵ His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He may say to you, do."

⁶ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁴⁰ But you are unwilling to come to Me, so that you may have life.

⁴¹ You do the works of your father." Then they said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father--God." ⁴² Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came forth and have come from God; nor have I come from Myself, but He sent Me.

¹⁴ You are My friends if you do what I command you.

⁴⁶ who found favor before God and asked opportunity to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

⁵¹ "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

¹¹ and he saw heaven having been opened, and descending to him a certain vessel like a great sheet, having been bound at the four corners, and being let down upon the ground, ¹² in which were all the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals, and the reptiles, and the birds of the air.

²² And they said, "Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and fearing God, having a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was given a revelation by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you."

¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

²⁸ And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting; ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers, ³⁰ slanderers, hateful to God, insolent men, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

¹³ (for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

⁹ What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. ¹⁰ Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one, ¹¹ There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God. ¹² All have turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not one doing kindness, there is not so much as one." ¹³ "Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " the poison of asps is under their lips"; ¹⁴ "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. ¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ Ruin and misery are in their ways; ¹⁷ And the way of peace they did not know. ¹⁸ There is no fear of God before their eyes." ¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. ²⁰ Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets, ²² even the righteousness of God, through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, to all and upon all those that believe. For there is no distinction;

⁴ Now to him who works, the reward is not accounted according to grace but according to debt.

¹² Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death passed to all men, because all sinned-- ¹³ (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

²¹ so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death. ³ For what was impossible for the law to do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and concerning sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who are fleshly set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ Therefore the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it. ⁸ And those that are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit indwelling in you. ¹² Therefore, brothers, we are debtors--not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh you shall die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but on account of Him who subjected it in hope; ²¹ because even the creation itself shall be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that all the creation groans together and labors in birth together until now.

⁷ nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, "In Isaac your seed shall be called." ⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

⁶ And if by grace, it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

³⁹ A wife has been bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband also dies, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in the Lord.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

¹⁴ Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there for righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion is there for light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what agreement is there for Christ with Belial? Or what part is there for a believer with an infidel? ¹⁶ And what union is there for the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

¹⁸ "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."

¹⁵ But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,

¹¹ But that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for "The just shall live by faith."

¹⁶ I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things oppose each other, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

¹ And you He made alive, being dead in transgressions and sins, ² in which you once walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience, ³ among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

⁹ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; ¹⁰ so as to know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, ¹¹ if in some way I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. ¹² Not that I have already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I press on, if also I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore, as many as are mature, let us think this way; and if in anything you think otherwise, even this God will reveal to you.

¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit.

¹⁸ May the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord in that Day--and you very well know how many ways he served in Ephesus.

¹¹ For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

³ For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

⁷ that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

¹⁰ Therefore I was indignant with that generation, and said, 'They go astray in their heart; and they did not know My ways.'

¹⁷ And with whom was He indignant forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

¹⁶ Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

¹⁷ Thus God, wanting to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His counsel, guaranteed it by an oath, ¹⁸ in order that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled to take hold of the hope being set before us;

⁷ By faith Noah, having being warned By God concerning the things not yet seen, being reverent, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, through which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

⁷ By faith Noah, having being warned By God concerning the things not yet seen, being reverent, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, through which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go forth to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

⁵ you also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit, ¹⁹ by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ who formerly disobeyed, when the longsuffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah, when the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

²⁰ who formerly disobeyed, when the longsuffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah, when the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

⁷ Now the end of all things is at hand; therefore be of sound mind and self-controlled in your prayers.

⁵ and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood upon the ungodly world;

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart having been trained in greediness, they are accursed children.

⁶ by which the world at that time perished, being flooded by water; ⁷ but the present heavens and earth, having been stored up by His word, are being reserved for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, both the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up. ¹¹ Therefore, seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, ¹² looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens, being set of fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

¹⁶ Because everything that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not from the Father but is from the world.

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome, ⁴ because everything having been born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that has overcome the world--your faith.

¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly among them about all their ungodly deeds which they have committed impiously, and about all the harsh words which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."