Genesis 6:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.”
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“Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled <FI>with<Fi> violence.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 6:11 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- Genesis 10:9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
- Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 34:27because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
- Psalms 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- Psalms 55:9O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
- Psalms 140:11May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.
- Isaiah 60:18No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- Jeremiah 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
- Ezekiel 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
- Ezekiel 28:16By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
- Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
- Habakkuk 1:2How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
- Habakkuk 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- Habakkuk 2:17For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
- Romans 2:13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
- Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
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