Genesis 8:21

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The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done.

Cross References

Genesis 3:17

He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.

Genesis 4:12

When you cultivate the ground, it won't produce crops for you. You'll be always on the run, wandering all over the earth.”

Genesis 5:29

He named him Noah, with the explanation, “He will provide relief for us from all the hard manual labor we need to do in cultivating the ground the Lord has cursed.”

Genesis 6:13

So God told Noah, “I have decided to put an end to all people on earth because they are all violent and lawless. I myself am going to destroy all of them, along with the earth.

Genesis 6:17

I myself am going to flood the earth with water that will destroy everything that breathes. Every living thing everywhere on earth will die.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw how terribly evil people on earth had become—every single thought in their minds was evil all the time!

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I'm going to wipe out these people I created from the earth, and not only them but also the animals, the creatures that run along the ground, and the birds, because I'm sorry I made them.”

Job 14:4

Who can bring something clean of what is unclean? No one.

Psalm 51:5

It's true that I was born guilty—sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are sinners from birth; from the moment they're born they tell lies.

Psalm 58:4

They have venom like that of a poisonous snake, and just like a cobra they stop listening,

Exodus 29:18

Then burn all of the ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.

Exodus 29:25

Then take the different breads back and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can claim, “I've made sure my conscience is clean; I've purified myself from sin”?

Ecclesiastes 7:20

There's not one good person in all the world who always does what is right and never sins.

Isaiah 47:12

So keep going with your magic spells and all your witchcraft, which you have worked at since you were young. Maybe you'll be successful, maybe you'll terrify people!

Isaiah 47:15

All those people you've worked with, all those you've traded with from when you were young—they will all go their own way, nobody will come and save you.

Isaiah 48:8

No, you've never heard that, and you've never known that! Nobody's told you about that before! I know how deviously you operate—you're called “rebels from birth”!

Isaiah 53:6

All of us have wandered off, just like sheep. Each of us has gone our own way, and the Lord allowed all our guilt to fall on him.

Isaiah 65:6

Look—it's all written down right in front of me! I'm not going to keep quiet. I'm going to pay them back by throwing their punishment into their laps.

Jeremiah 17:9

The mind is more deceptive than anything else—it's incurably sick! Who can possibly understand it?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they'll say, “We just can't! We'll do whatever we want. Each of us will stubbornly follow our own evil thinking.”

Jeremiah 8:6

I've heard exactly what they said, but they don't tell the truth. No one is sorry for doing wrong, asking, “What have I done?” Everyone chooses their own way, like a horse charging into battle.

Ezekiel 20:41

When I bring you back from the nations and gather you from countries where you were scattered, I will accept you as a suitable offering to me. I will reveal my holiness through you so the nations can see.

Leviticus 1:13

You shall wash the insides and legs with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, to be accepted by the Lord.

Leviticus 1:17

He shall tear it open by its wings, but not completely apart. The priest is to burn it on the altar on the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, to be accepted by the Lord.”

Leviticus 1:9

You shall wash the insides and legs with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, to be accepted by the Lord.

Leviticus 26:31

I will demolish your towns and destroy your pagan sanctuaries, and I will refuse to accept your sacrifices.

Leviticus 4:31

He shall remove all its fat like the fat of the peace offerings and burn it on the altar and it will be accepted by the Lord. In this way the priest will make the man's sin right, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 8:28

After this Moses took them back and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering, a food offering to be accepted by the Lord.

Numbers 15:3

When you bring an offering to the Lord from your herd or flock (whether it's a burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill a promise you made, or a freewill or festival offering) that will be acceptable to the Lord,

Matthew 15:19

For what comes from the mind are evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and blasphemy

John 3:6

“What's born of the body is body, and what's born of the Spirit is Spirit.

Romans 1:21

because even though they knew God, they did not praise him or thank him, but instead their thinking about God turned into complete foolishness, and darkness filled their empty minds.

Romans 3:23

We have all sinned, and we fall far short of God's glorious ideal.

2 Corinthians 2:15

We are like a fragrance of Christ to God, rising up from among those who are being saved as well as those who are dying.

Ephesians 5:2

Live in love, just as Christ loved you. He gave himself for us, a gift and sacrificial offering to God like a sweet-smelling perfume.

Philippians 4:18

For I have everything, more than I need! I'm thankful to receive from Epaphroditus the things you sent. They're like a sweet-smelling sacrifice that pleases God and that he approves of.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and that the world is under the power of the evil one.

1 Samuel 26:19

“Please listen to me, my lord and king. If the Lord has made you angry with me, then may he be happy to accept an offering. But if it's men that have done it, may they be cursed before the Lord for all this. They've been driving me away from living among God's chosen people, telling me, ‘Go away and worship other gods.’