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.

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• 2 Cor 2:15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
• Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Isa 54:9–10For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
• Rom 3:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
• Phil 4:18But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
• Lev 1:9But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• Gen 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
• Ezek 20:41I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
• Lev 1:13But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• Eccl 7:20For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
• 2 Pet 3:6–7Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Rom 8:7–8Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• Gen 6:17And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Jas 1:14–15But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
• Ps 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Gen 9:11–15And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
• 1 Jn 5:19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• Amos 5:21–22I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
• Rom 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Jas 4:1–2From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Exod 29:18And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
• Prov 20:9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
• Lev 1:17And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
• Exod 29:25And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
• Jer 18:12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
• Eph 2:1–3And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Isa 65:6Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
• Isa 48:8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
• Jer 8:6I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Isa 47:12Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
• Isa 47:15Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.
• Song 4:10–11How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
• Lev 26:31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

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