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Scripture for the Week
Genesis 6:1-10;
Hebrews 11:7
Genesis 6:1-10
The Flood
1When men
began to increase in number on the earth and
daughters were born to them, 2the sons of
God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful,
and they married any of them they chose. 3Then
the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man
forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a
hundred and twenty years."
4The Nephilim
were on the earth in those days—and also
afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters
of men and had children by them. They were the
heroes of old, men of renown.
5The LORD saw
how great man's wickedness on the earth had become,
and that every inclination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil all the time. 6The
LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth,
and his heart was filled with pain. 7So
the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have
created, from the face of the earth—men and animals,
and creatures that move along the ground, and birds
of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them."
8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the
LORD.
9This is the
account of Noah.
Noah was a righteous
man, blameless among the people of his time, and he
walked with God. 10Noah had three sons:
Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Hebrews 11:7
7By
faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen,
in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his
faith he condemned the world and became heir of the
righteousness that comes by faith.
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