Genesis 8:21

The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and resolved never again to curse the ground or destroy all life as he had. God responds to the offering with merciful commitment.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Cor 2:15For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
• Eph 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
• Isa 54:9–10“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
• Rom 3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
• Phil 4:18I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
• Lev 1:9The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
• Gen 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
• Ezek 20:41When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
• Lev 1:13The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall bring all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
• Eccl 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
• 2 Pet 3:6–7through which the world of that time perished in the flood.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• Gen 6:17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
• John 3:6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Jas 1:14–15But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
• Ps 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
• Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Gen 9:11–15And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
• 1 Jn 5:19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
• Amos 5:21–22“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
• Rom 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
• Jas 4:1–2What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Exod 29:18Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
• Prov 20:9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
• Lev 1:17He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
• Exod 29:25Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
• Jer 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
• Eph 2:1–3And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Isa 65:6Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
• Isa 48:8You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
• Jer 8:6I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
• Isa 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
• Isa 47:12So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
• Isa 47:15This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.
• Song 4:10–11How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! Your love is much better than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices.
• Lev 26:31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

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