Genesis 7:23

God's Word

Every living creature on the face of the earth was wiped out. Humans, domestic animals, crawling creatures, and birds were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ship were left.

Cross References

Genesis 6:17

I’m about to send a flood on the earth to destroy all people under the sky—every living, breathing human. Everything on earth will die.

Genesis 8:18

So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives.

Job 5:19

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and when the seventh one comes, no harm will touch you:

Psalm 91:1

Whoever lives under the shelter of the Most High will remain in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalm 91:7

They will not come near you, even though a thousand may fall dead beside you or ten thousand at your right side.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches are of no help on the day of fury, but righteousness saves from death.

Matthew 25:46

“These people will go away into eternal punishment, but those with God’s approval will go into eternal life.”

Hebrews 11:7

Faith led Noah to listen when God warned him about the things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a ship to save his family. Through faith Noah condemned the world and received God’s approval that comes through faith.

1 Peter 3:20

They are like those who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah when God waited patiently while Noah built the ship. In this ship a few people—eight in all—were saved by water.

2 Peter 2:5

God didn’t spare the ancient world either. He brought the flood on the world of ungodly people, but he protected Noah and seven other people. Noah was his messenger who told people about the kind of life that has God’s approval.

2 Peter 2:9

Since the Lord did all this, he knows how to rescue godly people when they are tested. He also knows how to hold immoral people for punishment on the day of judgment.

2 Peter 3:6

Water also flooded and destroyed that world.