2 Peter 2:5

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2 Peter 2:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

5 if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

6 if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

7 and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

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Genesis 6:1

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

Genesis 6:3

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:5

Then 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.

Genesis 6:6

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Genesis 6:7

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

Genesis 6:8

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

Job 22:15

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Matthew 24:37

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:38

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.

Matthew 24:39

And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 17:26

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

Luke 17:27

People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Genesis 7:1

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

Genesis 7:2

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

Genesis 7:3

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:4

For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”

Genesis 7:5

And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

Genesis 7:6

Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:7

And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:8

The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

Genesis 7:9

came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:10

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:12

And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:13

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

Genesis 7:14

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Genesis 7:15

They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.

Genesis 7:16

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 7:17

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 7:18

So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 7:19

Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

Genesis 7:20

The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

Genesis 7:21

And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.

Genesis 7:22

Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Genesis 7:23

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

Genesis 7:24

And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

1 Peter 3:20

who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

1 Peter 3:19

in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison

Jude 1:14

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

Jude 1:15

to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”

2 Peter 3:6

through which the world of that time perished in the flood.