Genesis 6:11

The earth is corrupt before God and filled with violence. This describes the moral condition that provokes the flood.

Cross-references · 18

• Ezek 8:17Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
• Hos 4:1–2Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Hab 2:8Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Rom 2:13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
• Ezek 28:16By the abundance of your traffic they filled your insides with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
• Isa 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
• Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
• Ps 11:5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
• Ps 55:9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
• Jer 6:7As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
• Hab 1:2Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
• Ps 140:11An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Hab 2:17For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
• Gen 10:9He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.
• Gen 13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
• 2 Chr 34:27because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.
• Gen 7:1Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

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