Genesis 6:17

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

and 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;

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

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.

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of the curse the land mourns. The pastures of the wilderness have dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

By 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.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.

Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you,

Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

Behold, I myself have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel. They are a gift to you, dedicated to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

“Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’ ”

therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

They ate, they drank, they married, and they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.