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This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.
Genesis 6:9 · New Living Translation
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  • WEB This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
  • KJV These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
  • BSB This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
  • NKJV This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
  • NASB These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

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Quick answer

Noah is described as righteous, blameless, and one who walked with God. His character flows from the grace he received.

Overview

Noah's righteousness and blamelessness describe a life of genuine faith and integrity before God, not sinless perfection. "Walked with God" recalls Enoch and marks a life of close fellowship and obedience. The New Testament names Noah among those justified by faith, so his righteousness ultimately points to the righteousness God credits to those who trust him.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 30

  • Heb 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.
  • Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Gal 3:11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
  • 2 Pet 2:5and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
  • Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
  • 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.
  • Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
  • Gen 5:22After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
  • Ezek 14:14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
  • Gen 2:4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
  • 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Eccl 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.
  • Ezek 14:20though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”
  • Acts 10:22They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
  • Job 1:8Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
  • Hab 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
  • Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
  • Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
  • Phil 3:9–15and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • 2 Chr 15:17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
  • Luke 2:25Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
  • Ps 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
  • Gen 48:15He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
  • Luke 23:50Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
  • Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
  • 1 Kgs 3:6Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
  • 2 Chr 25:2He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.
  • Gen 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
  • Gen 10:1Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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Christ at the center

From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.

How Genesis 6:9 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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